Who’s this?

Banks 41

Fraud line first. Tap a number to call it. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Government agencies 7

Agencies impersonated often enough to be worth checking. Read the note under each one: some publish a policy about how they call you, which is stronger evidence than any list of numbers. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Phone and internet providers 3

Your telco is who to tell if your number has been ported away from you without your knowledge, which is how a scammer gets past a code sent by text. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Energy retailers 9

Billing and disconnection threats are a common approach. Your retailer’s own number is on your bill as well as here. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Health insurers 9

Impersonated most often at claim time and around premium increases. Several publish a “we will never ask you” statement — read that under the organisation, it is stronger than any list of numbers. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Superannuation 8

A super balance is the largest sum most people have and the hardest for them to check, which is why these are impersonated. Every fund here says the same thing: they will never ask for your login details. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Toll roads 2

An unpaid-toll text is the most impersonated message in the country. Linkt publishes the numbers it may actually call you from — ten of them, all ordinary landlines, because its 13 number cannot dial out at all. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Post and delivery 1

A missed-delivery message asking for a small fee is one of the most reported scams in Australia. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Support services 1

For help after the fact — recovering identity documents, and working out what to do next. This is not a complete list — these organisations publish other legitimate numbers too, so a number missing from here is not evidence of a scam.

Who to tell

A few minutes, and it is what the national scam figures are built from. Worth doing even if you lost nothing.

Recent alarms 10

What the National Anti-Scam Centre is warning about right now. The ones marked Matched automatically carry a rule written against that alert’s own words, so if what you describe when you check a number fits one, the answer says so — at most 2, most recent first, because an alert is context rather than evidence about any number. The rest are here to be read, and never reach an answer.

Published by Scamwatch, National Anti-Scam Centre (ACCC) and read from its own alerts page, last on 2026-09-07. This is a copy taken on that date, not a live feed — check the page itself for anything newer. An alert describes a pattern that is current; it says nothing about any particular number, and Cooee never treats one as proof that a caller is a scammer.

Where your details may already be 14

If a stranger rang knowing your name and your bank, they may not have guessed. 14 recorded breaches, most recent first.

There is no official list of Australian data breaches. The OAIC runs the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme and publishes the totals — 532 notifications in January to June 2025, 58% of them criminal attacks — but never names the organisation. So this list is compiled from public disclosures and each entry carries its source. A name missing from it means nobody here has recorded it, not that the organisation was never breached.

A card for your wallet

Tick the ones you actually use, print it, and cut along the line. It fits behind a bank card. Everything on it is a number the organisation publishes itself — nothing here is a number anybody has told you to ring.

My details were taken

In order. The first two are the ones that stop money moving; the rest can wait until tomorrow if it is late.

On what you can get back: a company that leaks your data can be fined up to $50 million, and that money goes to the Commonwealth rather than to you. Individuals who complain to the Information Commissioner have recently been awarded roughly $1,500–$3,000 for distress, after complaining to the company first and waiting a year or more. There is no right to sue under the Privacy Act. That is the honest position, not a discouragement — complaining is still what makes the penalties happen.

Making yourself harder to scam

Ranked by how much they actually change, not by how often they are repeated. Nothing here is a product we are paid to name — we do not recommend antivirus, because on a current phone it is close to the least useful thing on this list.

The Australian Signals Directorate publishes free step-by-step guides for securing phones, accounts and email at cyber.gov.au/protect-yourself. They are the national authority on this and they are not selling anything. If someone has already been targeted, IDCARE on 1800 595 160 is free and will write you a plan.

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