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New Top 5 of The Most Annoying Telephone Numbers

Have you ever got one of those annoying computer-generated spam phone calls? Do you also consider it as the most annoying thing ever?
Take a look on the most annoying telephone numbers this week that has been irritating our users the most:

1. 044725543 from Wellington – New Zealand with a tellows Score of 6
2. 049244455 from Wellington – New Zealand with a tellows Score of 6
3. 0800222378 Telecom, TelstraClear and other network – New Zealand with a tellows Score of 6
4. 099769580 from Auckland – New Zealand with a tellows Score of 5
5. 043823400 from Wellington – New Zealand with a tellows Score of 4

We finally got more information about numbers that have been most wanted in NZ for the last couple of months and nobody knew who is hiding behing those numbers but now we do. Tellows user Johan provided us information about number 044725543 :

one of those annoying computer-generated spam phone calls, what a pain !
PLEASE STOP CALLING ME !!!!

Another Tellows user Tree commented on 049244455 :

I’m not sure but I think it is a BNZ phone banking survey, I received a call from this that I could not answer and could not ring back then got a call from a similar number that was BNZ survey.

If you have any information about those numbers please do not hesitate to share it with Tellows community. We will appreciate it a lot.
Take care fellows,
Tellows Team

Last Week’s Top 5 Scammers

This week’s top 5 include an unknown caller whose number has been known to us for some weeks now, but nobody knows who is hiding behind it. Unbelievable!! This guy from Wellington seem to work very hard to sustain such an high amount of attention. More and more people use tellows.co.nz to share their experience and report annoying spam and scam numbers, so we will definitely find out who is our dark horse and this week’s Top leader.
Top 5 of the Most Wanted UK callers:

1. 044725543, Wellington – New Zealand, with a Tellows Score of 6
2. 049747222, Wellington – New Zealand, with a Tellows Score of 7
3. 099769580, Auckland – New Zealand, with a Tellows Score of 5
4. 049244455, Wellington – New Zealand, with a Tellows Score of 7
5. 0800222378, private – New Zealand, with a Tellows Score of 8

Tellows-user Eva is frustrated about the call she got recently:

this number called me and hung up when i answered.
when i’m fast enough there’s nobody on the line.
I called them back and a woman with asian accent said: “Thank you for calling mycharity.com”

Anyone knows something about this?

Telephone spam and scam is still on an unprecedented height but thanks to your help our database on scam numbers is steadily growing. If you have any information on the numbers mentioned above, share it with the harassed!
Your Tellows-team

New Top 5 of Most Annoying Numbers in AU and NZ

Welcome back to the Tellows update on the most annoying spam and scam numbers of New Zealand and Australia. Following telephone numbers have been harassing you last week the most:

1. 044725543 from Wellington, New Zealand with a tellows Score of 6

2. 0800222378 a New Zealand number, with a tellows Score of 8

3. 049244455 from Wellington, New Zealand with a tellows Sof 6

4. 078571502 from Hamilton, New Zealand with a tellows Score of 8

5. 034748008 from Dunedin, New Zealand with a tellows Score of 5

The 1st place this week goes to the number 044725543, it was searched by the tellows-Users more than 1500 times now. Even though it is the most annoying number this week, it is still unclear who is hidding behind it. Alex is sharing his bad experience with us:

-This number is calling me for 4 weeks now. When I answered, there was noone in the line. Can somebody help?

The 2nd place goes to the number 0800222378. This number was reported by the tellows-User Ruger, he warns us that:

– TXT message urging to call 0800222378 ASAP. I think not! probably a bloddy ripp off

The 3rd place goes to the number 049244455, it was reported by tellows-User Jeff and like the first place we are dealing with unknown number.

The 4th place goes to the number 078571502, it was identified by the tellows-User Anon as a Telecom Service and reported as Harassment call.

The 5th place goes to the number 034748008, the tellows-User peter Rabbit told us:

this number called me 2 times this morning and when i called back the number was unknown….

Have a great spam free week !
Your Tellows team