These calls of a recorded message in Mandarin are originating from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. The number is listed as an embassy phone number. Go figure.

Caller: SCAM

he Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Australia would like to post a public alert that the telephone number (02) 6228 3999 and (02) 6228 3948 which were originally the number of the Switchboard and Consular Assistance Phone of the Embassy have been misappropriated by the frauds.Please stay cautious if receiving calls from these numbers. The frauds may continue to misappropriate other phone numbers of the Embassy . If you receive a seeming call, please hang up immediately or call (02) 6228 3998 to verify.If you have already revealed your personal information, we suggest youreport to the local police immediately.

Reported frauds will often have the following patterns. Caller ID would be displayed as either of the above mentioned numbers (02) 6228 3999 or (02) 6228 3948, the frauds would pretend to be one of the staffs of the Embassy, claiming with an automated message that the Embassy has an important notification awaiting for collection.The next step would ask victims to press 9 for an operator. This step ofteninvolves acquiring for victims’ names, phone numbers, passport numbers and other personal information. Then victims will be informed that their bank cardsor personal information were stolen and misused and they were involved in a criminal case in China. The victims will then be questioned by the so-calledChinese Public Security Department or the so-called International Criminal Police Organization which are totally fake for further investigation. Sometimes the victims can even really see a fake warrant with their names on it by logging on a false website. Finally the victims will be informed that they can only solve this problem by transferring fund to an appointed bank accountand cooperating with police investigation.

The Chinese Embassy in Australia would like to remind the public that if you have received calls or had miss calls from either (02) 6228 3999 or (02) 6228 3948, please disregard these calls as they are both scam calls and it is NOT generated from the Chinese Embassy or any other Consulates in Australia.

call me at 6am to wake me up for f*ck, f*cking idiots from ACT. go f*ck yourself c*nt face.

This is a scammer's phone number that claimed they are calling from Chinese Consulate in Australia.

骗子的电话，说是中国驻澳洲领事馆打来的。

Automated message in Chinese, couldn't understand at all.
Wednesday 21st of march 2018

Call from this number and said I tested positive in COVID-19 at Peking??? Such idiot even did not know my name

A scam that claimed to be Chinese Embassy. Woke me up at 9am on Saturday morning, f*ckn idiots, Chinese embassy doesn’t work on weekends.
妥妥的骗子，转接客服后一路用美女称呼我，差一点就是淘宝客服的风范。竟然周六早上9点打来电话，大使馆从没这么勤劳过。

Recorded message in Mandarin

‭+0061262283999‬
Left a message and it was Chinese or something. Couldn’t understand a word they said

Called in Mandarin saying that they represented the Chinese Embassy, passport used illegally to enter Australia, needed to confirm passport details, etc. Clearly a scam. The number is the Fax No of the Chinese Embassy Consular section.

Caller: scam caller

Call was in Mandarin, concerning about my health conditions. Questioning me why didn’t I report my health condition to the Chinese embassy for many year.....hang on, I am not even a Chinese citizen, why should I report to Chinese embassy. Keep on calling back for several times after I hanged up on him

Scam!! Do not trust it.

Called me on Friday and left a message.
When put through translator it says they were from the Australian Chinese Embassy.

Utter rubbish.

do not answer

Didnt pick up sadly :( i like to mess around with tele marketers

Caller: Chinese embassy

He told me the name and employee's bomber. Tried to help me and bushes me that my passport information is not right.......
I told him that I am recording that and then he hand up. The idiot rang yesterday and today sometime blood scams

Shame on you Chinese, why there are so many scams and frauds

They came out scamming again. Pretended to Chinese embassy. Not Chinese citizen hence hung up immediately.

I am a Taiwanese, not Chinese. Stop calling me I have nothing to do with China.