"In a way what they're trying to do is distance themselves from the crime. In this case it appears scammers have randomly picked Mr Fitzgerald's number to make scam calls from. Professor of cybersecurity at University of the Sunshine Coast, Dave Lacey, said it was more than likely Mr Fitzgerald's number had been spoofed by a phone scammer. Telecommunication experts believe the problem of phone spoofing may get worse over the next year or so. "When I spoke to Telstra, I was up at the Telstra shop, he actually just stood there and said 'I can't see a problem, I don't think there is one'." Who's calling? Mr Fitzgerald went to Telstra about the problem but was met with a blank. "I probably lost two days and in two days I could make upwards of $10,000 just by sitting in the office organising things," he said. Mr Fitzgerald said he was receiving so many calls his business phone was rendered temporarily useless. "They ring me up, old farmers, real old-school people, they'll still have this number in their old diary book … they ring that number for a bit of steel." "I got clientele that probably have the number written on their shed wall," Mr Fitzgerald said. Mr Fitzgerald said he was faced with the prospect of having to change his number, not an attractive prospect given he had recently bought the business and all the goodwill that came with its phone number. The affected number was Mr Fitzgerald's business landline for his steel and engineering company in Wangaratta in north east Victoria. I tried to explain to him that my phone had been hacked." "My phone number had called him about 25 times in a day. "I had one bloke, he rang me up and he threatened to go to the coppers.
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