A string of strange phone calls to a Cootamundra household has prompted a scamming warning from national communications giant, Telstra.
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At 9:30am on Tuesday morning, local resident Judy Andrews received a mysterious call from a blocked number posing as Telstra.
“When I heard it, it sounded quite like the recorded Telstra voice message,” Ms Andrews said.
The call reportedly concerned urgent repair work in the region and advised outages between a peculiar time frame.
“It told me there would be a line outage between 11:59pm October 3, 1917, until 6am October 3, 2017,” she continued.
I thought it could be quite serious and that they might try to get my information.
- Coota resident Judy Andrews
Ms Andrews then received an identical call exactly one hour later and immediately contacted Telstra services for assistance.
When questioned by the Herald, a Telstra spokesperson denied any knowledge of ongoing authorised outages and issued a warning to residents about sophisticated scamming techniques.
“Any attempt to deceive our customers with false information is very concerning for Telstra,” the spokesperson said.
“Scammers are becoming more sophisticated using phone, email and many other methods to deceive.”
The spokesperson explained the blocked number would likely be from a foreign callers and that any further information or complaints should be directed towards Telstra.
“The fact that most of these scam calls originate from overseas makes it difficult to prevent the calls from being made, so we are likely to see more of them in the future.”