130-085-2232

Ok, this scam gets better.  I did receive a letter pro porting to be from the ATO. It had my address and tfn. It said I had lost super with Australian Super. I am a member of Australian Super and am currently making contributions to them.  I looked up the Superseeker site and I do not have any lost accounts. The ATO deputy commissioner listed is actually the chief operating officer, Paul Duffus.

I suspect there has been a data breach at Australian Super.

This has to be a sophisicated scam.

I had a call from a "blocked" number. When they started asking me for Address details so they could send me detail in a letter I started getting a little suspect... The return number I received was 1300 852 232 (surprise!) I just called the ATO using a number on their website "http://www.ato.gov.au/" and was able to confirm that this a legitimate and listed number of the ATO. I still however find it a little bit interesting that they were asking me for my addres (I would have thought this would have to be on file.)

Hi Andy,

Same things happened to me today. So, did you call them back? Because i was asking them if this is a prank call and  a guy (Indian accent) told me 'you can call us back at 1300 85 22 32'.

This number is correct. The ATO called due to my super. As I had changed address recently some mail had been returned. I had since changed my address but I was stll marked as lost and sent to the ATO.

I rang the tax office today after receiving such a call and asked if the phone number was legit, she said yes and it had something to do with lost super. The easiest thing to do before calling the number 1300 852 232 is to call the ATO yourself to confirm. That way you know if you are being scammed or not. And for the people on here who said we we scammers ourselves for saying it was a legit number...whatever!! Ring the ATO their number is on their website and find out for yourselves.
Cheers.

You sir are a complete idiot! It's a legitimate number, if you ever had doubts just ring the ATO number in the whitepages and confirm with the operator. Had a call a few weeks back and they found some Super for me, gave the superfunds a call and what do you know, I had Super sitting Lost in a an account that I had totally forgot. You idiots complain when the ATO takes your money but say its a scam when they find u $. If you don't want it, give it to me.

The post is from a fellow criminal!

I Just had the call tonight.  I guess they called the wrong number as I have tracked the caller to their address and reported them.  It will take a while, but eventually all parties linked to this criminal act will be tracked down.

I had a phone call yesterday claiming that it's from ATO. Lucky that I was not at home so my housemate took it and asking me to ring back this 1300 number WITH MY TFN. I was at first thought that I was getting audited but didn't agree it was logical because being audited, you always receive a letter from ATO not a phone call asking you send your information to them. Plus, I got so little tax refund last year and I work for the gov. So I run through this number on google to see if it lights up anywhere. I was lucky to find this info. I will ring back on Monday via their normal phone number and find out. Meanwhile, if it'sregarding to lost super, it would make sense because I have never rolled over my super since I started working for the gov. So I would have had some money sitting in my super. But the whole idea of being contacted by  phone rather than a letter in the mail... scares me... I'd rather not give out any info till I physically speak to someone who sitting at the counter.

Well these clowns must still be operating. They left a message on my answering machine saying they were the ATO and to call them back on 1300852232. Well I just rang the ATO using their normal phone number and they have confirmed that that number is not one of theirs and nor do they have any outstanding enquiries about me.

REPORT ITS HAPPENING AGAIN: SCAM ALERT....Just had a voice message from ATO and they told me 2 call them back with my tax details on 1300852232. I googled the number and so many pages came up saying it's a scam. Be careful they called on a blocked number and told me to call them back. DONT GIVE ANY DETAILS TO 1300 852232 SCAM...

I just had a call from "Pradeep" from the "ATO" - he said he was calling in relation to my superannuation and needed to confirm some details from me. He asked me for my postal address and I asked him which address they had on file and he said he can't give that information to me.  So I got suspicious and I started asking him questions like, "Where did you say you were calling from again?" and he gave me the 1300 852 232 number to ring - googled it and this forum thread came up as the top result.

So, I don't know if it's a scam.  But logic tells me the ATO is far too busy to be ringing up individuals and letting them know about their lost super.  There are plenty of resources for people interested in tracking down their lost super to do it for themselves.  So I won't be calling this number back, and I suggest that nobody else does either.  If you want to know about your super, call the ATO yourself - DON'T rely on these posts saying it's legit - check it out for yourself!

My daughter and I both recieved phone calls from this number today the woman asked for my date of birth and I gave it to her I didnt have time to take down details about this phone call it didnt seem suss at the time but when my daughter got home and told me she had the same call I was a bit worried but she called them back , gave her DOB and TFN now we see that it may be a scam is there any way to protect ourselves now that we have given out this info ?

recieved a phone call from someone with an indian sounding accent from 1300852232.  he claimed to be from the ATO and asked my wife to relay a message to me.  message was to contact ATO  Gordon on the above number and I would need my Tax File Number to varify Identity.  Gordon explained it was "nothing drastic" and also requested I return his call outside normal business hours between 6.30 and 8.30.  when i investigated the number I found it is not a registered ATO number and ATO will never ask you for your TFN for identity varification.

A very suspicious call from Australian Tax (then altered the idenfication to be from the Australian Taxation Officer) requesting initially my dob or address to authenticate information so they could tell me about superannuation matters.