I receive so many calls a day. When picked up lady says she is from Australian health and wellness forum....doing a poll and asking if anyone was over age 50....someone was calling from Phillipines. When I refused to give out information, she was still very adamant to receive her responses and started saying that she is not selling anything.... BEWARE of such calls !

Caller: Australian Health and Wellness

have rung 3 times today - scam in the disguise of a 'survey' - trying to trick you into buying...told them the first time I wasnt interested - they do not take no for an answer.
Do Not Call register a bit of a joke.

Caller: Australian Health and Wellness Forum

A Philippino male caller asking age group, illnesses, name, postcode, said they were collecting data... obviously.
Probably not legit!

Caller: ?? Australian Health and Wellness Institute

Wanted to ask some questions to someone in the household who was over 50 for a survey. I asked if they were Government. No - private institute. Asked where they were located - Malaysia. I said - no thanks and hung up.

I was phoned to do this survey. I told him I was at work and then agreed to do a shortened version (1 minute). As soon as I said I was in my late 40's he hung up on me. Rude

Caller: Australian Health and Wellness Forum

This is a scam call but it seems to target seniors. How does it know who to call? Who has sold phone numbers (including numbers on the Do Not Call register - what a joke that is!) to this bunch of scammers overseas?

Caller: Marcus

said he was from Australian Health and Wellness forum and doing a survey, He went straight to the point after telling me he was not selling anything and di I have arthritis. I hung up after telling Marcu any phone survey I have been on I was asked personal questions.

Caller: Australian health and wellness forum (08) 9537 6558

I asked if what this organisation i and If I could find it on the internet. I asked for the website. They hung up.

Had said they were looking for someone over 50 for a survey.

I answered the questions, it have no health / pain issues. So their final comment was, “Have a nice day!” I had no doubt the survey would be followed up with a sales pitch if I’d been seen as a candidate.
“Australian Health and Wellness Survey” must be part of Revitive - I must say the young man was courteous, and did exactly as he said he would - asked a few heath questions. Knew my surname, rang on my landline - so likely got my number from the directory.

Caller: Chris

Foreign person said he was from this Forum and wanted to carry out a survey. Advised him I give false answers to Surveys on the phone, as most people did for the election surveys, then thanked him for the call and hung up.

Caller: supposedly a survey for Australian Health and Wellness Forum

Oh dear. I altered my usual method of dealing with these calls (which is to hang up immediately) and fell for the blurb, which I thought was something politically based on behalf of one party or the other. No, not the case and reading here I realise that this is a well organised scam - though for what exact purpose I can't imagine. The younger caller (from a region not too far from Australia based on his accent) thanked me for my time and said that was it. I replied that it wasn't over as far as I was concerned and that I wanted a call back number and a web site for his organisation. He told me that it was the name he had given so basically I was rude, told him that it was NOT a web site, legitimate or otherwise. He was quick to explain that their web site was 'undergoing' restoration work so I suggested that he get a real job, stop scamming people and hung up. Cross with myself for even thinking it was a genuine survey and like others here, I wonder all over again just why we bother being on a do not call/do not contact register. It's a waste of time and every government department at every level appears unable, or unwilling, to take any action to stop this positive epidemic of scam calling. Incidentally the call I received came from (08) 9497 5375 which, on calling back, came up with a Telstra message saying it was not a registered number !! All the best to other posters.

Caller: Australian Health and Wellness Forum

Like Anon. 7/12/17, I have been a long term registrant on the Do Not Call register and a more useless government entity there has never been! I have a Do Not Knock sign on my front door and it is respected by all unexpected visitors.
The rules re. Do Not Call are a joke as there are so many exemptions that the bloody Indian bastards can always find a way around ignoring them, in this instance by pretending to be undertaking a 'survey'. The latest wrinkle in their schemes is to somehow obtain an old or unused(?) Australian landline phone number and use this as the conduit to calling me, this way, if I use caller I.D. they show up as a private Australian number and I guess they anticipate that most Australians will unwittingly answer the call.
Message to federal politicians: Do Not Call means that I DO NOT want d*ckhead salesmen and scammers to call me!! - get it?

I just had a call, said I neede d to go toilet -- call back in 5 mins.
I'm checking on internet ----

SURE ENOUGH IT IS A SCAM !

Indian man's voice --- assuring you he's not going to ask for money ----
I was suspicious ---- so I am VERY GLad I checked.

NOT GOiNG to answer any of his survey questions !!!!!
GOing to tell him I[ve reported him ---- if he does ring back.

Thanks for having useful info on the web to KEEP ME SAFE

Caller: Australian Heakth and Wellness Form

Same as above. I gave no details except age and first name. What are they after? On-selling to insurance companies/medical cure-all scams?
I told I was perfectly well - nothing wrong with me at all - a fib of course but he soon ended the call.
These people always seem to call around 4-6pm. So much for the Do Not Call Register!

Very similar experience, similar words to many above (over 50, health-related questions and whether I thought health insurance in Australia was affordable, also some demographics - marital status, age, retired?, occupation, Australian?, pensioner?), like one commenter above, he tended to "personalise" - suggest more specific answers - my more vague answers), in Adelaide at 12:45 pm on Friday 9 Nov 2018, male voice claiming to represent Australian Health and Wellness Forum - don't know the number it purported to come from. He said he'd got my details from the white pages - but, like for some above, tried to get info from me first, then later confirmed it/compared it with the white pages info. Annoyingly, I got sucked in, though didn't give much info.

Caller: Person with Asian accent

Same as previous posts. I persistently asked what the info was to be used for and couldn't get an answer. They are ringing randomly from the white pages, so she told me. I was specific that I did not want them to ring or contact me again, and she then spelt out my surname (not provided) and asked me to confirm this, which I did not do. I would love to know what they intend to do with the vague info they are fishing for.

Caller: RON

Probably fell for the call from a person with an accent.No info given except for names and general health

Caller: Australian Health & Wellness Forum Survey

Got sucked in this time...... I usually hang up on callers with bad english/awkward accents........ they asked my 1st name (so they could address me correctly...), age, and some questions about health back pain/osteo arthritis/health insurance and retirement...... after longer than I was expecting the survey to take, they then asked me to confirm my surname, street, suburb, post code (they read it out to me....) so they wouldn't call again (and I fell for that too....) . I hadn't given any specifics (birth date etc), but they obviously (in hindsight) got enough to identify me on their list........ damn, wish I had said no & hung up....must be going soft in the head.....

P/no on my callerID list was 0198339100 which had a message to ring another no for sms/txt messages........ hope it wasn't a phishing call....... disappointed I fell for it.

Probably get lots of scam callers from now on........... JUST SAY NO & HANG UP.

Caller: A women who called herself Karel

She knew my surname and our address but didn't disclose that fact until the end of the survey. It's a bit scary when you suddenly realise they know all about you.

Caller: Scam survey?

Persistent! Thankfully new cheap home ph rings out quickly!