The latest scam is calling offering pensioners a grant and saying they are from the Australian Grants Department, usually requesting a fee to release the grant.

I had several missed calls from this number today (along with 2 others), I was unable to answer and no voice mail was left, when I tryed to return the call the number just rings out! What the hell?

I just got a call from this number today (03) 9001 6584. Caller ID said "OVERSEAS" when I answered.
The lady said her name was Ashley White, and she was calling from the Local Council of Fair Trading. She said their team of litigation officers were committed to helping many consumers get their money back from fees being overcharged from the bank. She just needed to know the bank I used. This was when my alarm bells rang and I thought it could be a scam so I asked her more information about the company and a phone number I could call back to reach her. She gave me the above number. I asked her if they were a government agency, and she repeated who she was with "The local council of Fair Trading" (makes it sound like a gov't agency). Their offices were in Melbourne, Australia. I said it sounded dodgy and she had a good spiel of info to try and persuade me. She said she already had my street address, and phone number, she just needed to know my BSB, which she assured me that no-one could access my bank account with that. And then she said she would need my bank account number, then their people could check with the bank authorities if we had been incorrectly charged too many fees. She said that not many people knew that the banks were not legally allowed to charge us certain fees. She rattled off a list of fee types not including interest earned or something like that.
I said to her that not many people would do such a kind thing on behalf of the general public, at no cost to them. So I asked her what her company receives from this.
She then went back to talking about their strong team of litigation officers, and that she had told me the department she was with and given me their phone number and that I could call that number back and ask for her any time. I asked her name and she said her name is Ashley White. (Could be false).
Sounds a bit dodgy to me, but just thought I'd share this after trying to find more info about this company on Google - nothing came up with the name, but the phone number came up as part of this feed on "Who calls me".

I just got a call from this number today (03) 9001 6584. Caller ID said "OVERSEAS" when I answered.The lady said her name was Ashley White, and she was calling from the Local Council of Fair Trading. She said their team of litigation officers were committed to helping many consumers get their money back from fees being overcharged from the bank. She just needed to know the bank I used. This was when my alarm bells rang and I thought it could be a scam so I asked her more information about the company and a phone number I could call back to reach her. She gave me the above number. I asked her if they were a government agency, and she repeated who she was with "The local council of Fair Trading" (makes it sound like a gov't agency). Their offices were in Melbourne, Australia. I said it sounded dodgy and she had a good spiel of info to try and persuade me. She said she already had my street address, and phone number, she just needed to know my BSB, which she assured me that no-one could access my bank account with that. And then she said she would need my bank account number, then their people could check with the bank authorities if we had been incorrectly charged too many fees. She said that not many people knew that the banks were not legally allowed to charge us certain fees. She rattled off a list of fee types not including interest earned or something like that.I said to her that not many people would do such a kind thing on behalf of the general public, at no cost to them. So I asked her what her company receives from this.She then went back to talking about their strong team of litigation officers, and that she had told me the department she was with and given me their phone number and that I could call that number back and ask for her any time. I asked her name and she said her name is Ashley White. (Could be false).Sounds a bit dodgy to me, but just thought I'd share this after trying to find more info about this company on Google - nothing came up with the name, but the phone number came up as part of this feed on "Who calls me".

it's a scam, just called the bank to confirm

i am writing this i have had several calls from (03) 9001 6584 saying they are from department of reclaims fifteen hundrer dollars these people have stung out of us he tells us his name is peter he tells us he owes us 6158 we had overpaid bank fees knew what bank was with and personal details the money was paid through western union yes form at post office i still have all documents concerned and would like this investigated and how to get money back and something done bout this matter thanks tanya tasmania