G'day Norm,

Yes the Government is asleep , they need to do more to stop the scammers.

https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Co...leep-At-The-Whee-At-The-ATO/td-p/2291901


I know people who never answer their phone if they don't recognize the number ,there must be a lot of people
like that now. Not that this would help much if a scammer has spoofed the phone number which is easily done,
I've had fake ID messages sent to my phone ,pretending to be someone you know.

I guess a lot of the time people aren't expecting people to blatantly lie to them because that's not what they would do to other people.

Cheers
Max.