My mum recieved an overseas call from an Indian woman, this woman had all her details, bank name, Account number, DOB, address....how this possible? This greatly concerns me. This woman then went on to say that the bank my mum banks with owes her money back, from the fees that she is paying per month and that they should not have been doing this and the bank wants to return the monies, the amount the bank apparently would like to return is $4851, and was asked to call Sherry Wood on this 02 Sydney number, Sherry is apparently from a govt depratment and would give mum more information, they also went as far as giving my mum a form reference number, in which my mum has no memory of ever filling out.
My mum started questioning the Indian lady, and this woman had the stupidity and ignorance of saying "if you dont want the money, the dont worry about it". As soon as my mum tyold me this I said this is fir sure a scam and dont call the Sydnety number and I jumped on line to investigate. This all happened 30mins ago.
Lucky I you guys.
Thanks for sharing.

I just got a call from an Indian man claiming to be from the Aus Government. He said my bank was making unlawful charges and that the govt was refunding it. He made it convincing saying that I need not provide any bank details and simply had to choose whether I wanted it debited straight into my account or have a cheque sent to me. He then asked to verify some information. I hung up after talking for longer than I would have liked.

I think he was phishing for information and despite not giving much, I am still greatly concerned. Anyone know what the scam was trying to do?

I too got a call from (02) 6100 4071 scamming again basically Indian guys trying to collect your personal infromations................

In order to get you refund, you will need to pay them a release fee of $150 or so, but you don't get the refund.

It's similar to the Advance Fee Fraud example mentioned on the ATO website: http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.aspx? ... 7.htm&page=9&H9

I have had an Indian woman ringing me for the last 3 days saying her name was catherine scott and that i needed to ring devina austin on the number 02 61 00 33 07 then today the same woman rang me and wanted to know why i had not phoned sherie woods like she had advised i do then she realised that she had given me a different name for that very same number i never did ring but catherine scott knew my name date of birth phone number even who i banked with and she were saying my bank owed me that exact figure $4851 i rang financial redress IMF who are the ones chasing the banks about the over charging and he confirmed this to be a scam i then contacted the accc and made a complaint about the scam these people also asked me 4 my drivers licence number and my bank account numbers even after i said that i knew it was a scam she just continued on trying to get my details with the details she already had of mine all she needed was my licence number and my bank numbers and this would have given her almost 100points for my id every1 needs to tell as many people about this as they can

In order to get you refund, you will need to pay them a release fee of $150 or so, but you don't get the refund.It's similar to the Advance Fee Fraud example mentioned on the ATO website: http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.aspx? ... 7.htm&page=9&H9