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03 · VIC & TAS

Phone numbers beginning with 03 (Melbourne, Hobart, Victoria, Tasmania).

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The 03 prefix covers Victoria and Tasmania: Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Hobart, Launceston and surrounding regional centres. Like 02 in NSW, 03 numbers are predominantly business and government landlines today. Frequent reports on 03 numbers include fake utility-disconnection calls, real-estate fishing calls (often spoofed from suburb prefixes), and "your account has been compromised" bank scripts. If a Melbourne or Hobart-prefixed number called you out of the blue, the safest play is always to hang up and call the official number on the company's website rather than redialling.

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