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In Australia, the government has put aside a large set of phone numbers that can be used for “fictional” purposes: https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works

 

Put simply, no phone calls should ever come from these numbers (as they only exist for use in movies/TV/other fictional work).

 

How easy is it to get all of these numbers added as scam numbers in TrueCaller?

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It looks like this is something that happens globally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number

 

In theory none of these fictional numbers should be making phone calls and should all flag as scam/spam.

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4 hours ago, BenF said:

It looks like this is something that happens globally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number

 

In theory none of these fictional numbers should be making phone calls and should all flag as scam/spam.

Thanks for sharing this, Ben. We've passed on this to our team for validation.

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