Cell Phone Scams 2025. Register and enforce rules that require telcos to identify, trace and block scam calls and sms. These scams target aussies over email, the phone, sms, social media and through legitimate websites like amazon and ebay, so when you receive a message or see a deal that’s too good to be true.

Australian telcos are working with the australian communications and media authority (acma) to stop scams in their tracks. Australians have lost $63.6 million to scams involving unsolicited calls or text messages so far this year, according to the accc’s scamwatch program.