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Home to Austin and its surrounding communities like Round Rock and Cedar Park, the 512 area code is the original code for the greater Austin area. Callers range from Texas state agency representatives and UT Austin departments to tech recruiters for companies like Dell and Tesla and political lobbyists.
512 area code numbers reported as unwanted calls to the FTC in the last 30 days.
| Phone Number | Complaints | Last Reported |
|---|---|---|
| (512) 886-4019 | ||
| (512) 862-9555 | ||
| (512) 285-8210 | ||
| (512) 497-8441 | ||
| (512) 612-1521 | ||
| (512) 881-6851 | ||
| (512) 674-0277 | ||
| (512) 768-2709 | ||
| (512) 798-0716 | ||
| (512) 980-6966 |
Austin's 512 area code is rife with calls about Social Security criminal activity and fake process servers. Scammers claim your identity is linked to a crime or that you are being sued to get your money.
"Call from our department is to inform you that there is a legal enforcement actions filed on your Social Security ... activities so when you get this message kindly revert as soon as possible on our number that is 512256824 I repeat 512-256-8244 before we begin with the legal proceedings thank you and have a nice day..."
"I have been retained to serve you with documents to appear at either your residence or your place of employment. If you have any questions of concerns about this complaint or with to rectify the matter, you can hit any key on your phone to connect to our office directly... You have officially been notified."
"Trying to impersonate TX Comptroller about 'an important tax matter' in reference to a bogus Tax ID number and gives a bogus 800 number to call."
"Robocall saying I had just purchased a $1,000 iphone from Amazon."
"Got a handwritten letter saying they have items on hold for me and gave this number to call and schedule delivery. Kinda weird since I haven't ordered anything to need delivery. There was no other information except the name on the card, Jasmine Fidelis..."
"They called me saying they are my bank University Federal Credit Union. So I called my bank on my office phone and put them on speaker and let them ask some questions to the scam caller and they hung up the phone."
Area code 512 covers the Austin metropolitan area and several surrounding areas in central Texas.
Area code 737 was introduced as an overlay for area code 512 in July 2013. Ten-digit dialing is required within the 512/737 territory.
No, 512 is Austin's area code and one of the original Texas codes, also serving Round Rock and Cedar Park. Austin's rapid growth and high concentration of tech workers make 512 numbers particularly attractive to scammers crafting technology-themed fraud.
Austin's tech-forward identity is exactly what certain fraud operations try to exploit when spoofing 512. Active local scam types include fake process servers citing Travis and Williamson County complaints by name to sound credible, and impersonators of University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) who target members with invented late payments and push for account details over the phone.