just got a call myself. i called the number back and it said "you have been contacted by a hosted contact service. you may be contacted again in the future. thank you. good bye."


umm. no thanks. dont call again if you dont have the decency to leave a message, or answer your phone

Who is the caller does any one know

So how are they getting our numbers? They have attempted to call me 3 times in a matter of 3 weeks.. I have not answered.

Keep getting phone calls from this number I phoned back and there was an answering machine.  Now I am worried.

They are "War dialing" basically a program to dial every number between a set of 2 numbers.
e.g. from 0409 111 111 to 0409 999 999
they are not answering because they are building a list of "live" numbers, then they will sell that list.

Similar to spam email, if you reply with a "DON"T EMAIL ME THIS AGAIN!!!" you are doing them a favour by confirming a live email address.

With phones it is harder to not answer as one could be expecting a call, best bet would be to add that number to your ignored numbers.

I also had this problem. Rung numerous times with no message left and the times I did answer in time I got hung up on repeatedly. Rang the ADMS number provided by DOC and got same waffle (though they say they don't hang up...yeah right). They said it would stop in one night. Also advised COMMBANK was the party who provided them my number.


One way to maybe also stop this is to hurt their (ADMS) bottom line by going to the source.
In my case I rang Commbank and told them how unhappy (to put it mildly) I was and how P----- off their customers are getting (not a great way to improve sales)

They were quite happy to get this info.... maybe they will give ADMS the flick if enough people complain.
That might get them listening (or as the case may be "talking" instead of hanging up!)