How to Avoid Phone Spam

This article addresses the following issues. If you have any one of these issues, there are options below of how to avoid them.
- Have you been called by marketing companies after giving out your phone number when filling some forms?
- Have you been called by marketing companies whose phone number are not actual permanent phone?
- Do you need to fill in an online application and they require your phone number to be filled in?
- Do you want to enter some special competition or promotional draw, but they need your phone number?
- Do you want to avoid giving your real phone numbers?


Here are some solutions:

1. For Australians, it is possible to register your phone number with the government to specify that you do not wish to receive unsolicited phone calls. The organization that does this is the:

National Do Not Call Registry
https://www.donotcall.gov/


2. You can use the following sites to check where the phone number came from, if their phone numbers are left on your phone. Note that some of these sites may not work for all countries.

https://www.numberguru.com/
numberguru

http://www.freephonenumberfinder.com/
Free Phone Number Finder

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx
WhoCallsMe


http://www.reversephonesearch.com.au
Australia Reverse Phone Lookup

http://www.reverseaustralia.com/lookup/
reverseaustralia


3. If you do need to give out your phone number, you can try the following. These numbers have made calls to me but when I returned the call, there is no one there. They are technically valid phone numbers meaning you can get a connection, but they appear to be used for marketing and they are not owned by the people who made the call. If you know of any of such numbers, please post a comment here.

02 8031 1300
02 8524 5941
02 8524 5985
02 8524 5998
02 9325 0300

03 8372 3179

03 8669 1578

03 9938 2698

07 5584 4700

61 2 8524 5998
61 2 8524 5985
61 2 8524 5941
61 3 9938 2698
61 2 8031 1300
61 2 9325 0300