Residential White Pages phone numbers. Why do we have to pay for removing our details?

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posted elsewhere by @NubglummerySnr

Scam callers and Telstra's policy on phone book listings

For the past four years we’ve been getting bogus calls from people claiming to be from Telstra who then claim that our internet is about to be cut off due to our internet usage clogging up the system or, in some cases, claims that we’re completely destroying the Internet for everyone right around the country due to our so called fraudulent web activity. They then try and get us to download malware to our computers by saying they need remote access to ensure we don’t have any malware, or they’ll …