this number is bankwest, its legit.

also, bankwest stands for bank of western australia. thats why they operate out of western australia.

Got a call from this no. which rang twice and stopped. If its legit (and I dont bank with Bankwest) why do they only let it ring twice. I see from comments above, i'm not the only one??

Update:

I called the Bank to report this and guess what? It was the Bank calling.

I suggested the Bank leave a message, or send a text or email saying, "Call Bankwest!"

I guess because we already know the Banks are thieves, it wasn't much of a stretch to think this was a possible scam! I actually thought they may of had a mischievous cleaner at head office.

Is this is how things are run, now they have been devoured by the Commonwealth Bank? Shame!

Funny... the Bank had called me because they thought my card had been scammed (but left no message) and I called the Bank because I thought the call was a scam.

Lucky I called because they had stopped my card and I didn't even know. Too bad if I filled my car with petrol at the BP and then my card didn't work and then the Pakistani guy (who used to be a Telemarket scammer) at the bullet proof window would think I was a petrol scammer.

So glad we got rid of cash under the mattress, this is waaaaaay better. Cough!

Be vigilant. ©

I too received a call from this number at:
2:30pm WST Saturday 26 June 2011.

I called the number, sure enough it is BankWest!

WTF?

Houston...

just received this call, too. I beleive it to be my bank, Bankwest, as 08 area code is Western Australia and BankWest is in WA

Got a call as well, went about 5 seconds, didn't have time to answer.
I DID sign up with BankWest recently so don't think it's a scam but who knows.

I called Bankwest and verified the call came from them. It's legit

Hi guys, i just had a call from someone called Chris declaring he was from bankwest. The caller id showed up as (08) 9449 2222. Now here's the interesting part... IT IS SATURDAY, Bankwest does not operate on Saturday.When i call the number back it goes through the normal Bankwest welcoming messages and options like you would expect. What is also concerning is that the number showed up and normally it wouldn't do that.As soon as he said "It's Chris from Bankwest" i said "OK, thanks bye" and hung up.I'll call bankwest on Monday to double check things but i'm pretty sure it's got something to do with these scammers getting around. Or it was a very important call from Bankwest that couldn't wait until monday. In which case they would be calling me back before hand.Hope this is helpful to some.

who and why is calling from this number

i received a call from (08) 9449 2222. at first i was not getting what he was saying. the guy was talking about my account. i went to the net to confirm this number and i saw it was not only me who has received a cal from this number.am not sure if it is genuine.