I received another one of these calls yesterday. This time I recorded the answering machine message. It said the following:
"Hello. This is a service verification. We will call you back later. Thank you."
Today I once again received a call. This time I choose to answer for once to see what would happen. It ended up being a sort of survey about Yellow Book. They asked me a few questions regarding whether I have a Yellow Book directory currently, whether I have used it online, and if I have ever bought anything or a service as a result of it.
After that they thanked me and said they would send me a free two week subscription to my county newspaper, The Patriot News.
The caller was courteous and I wasn't at all annoyed.
Now, I cannot say whether all phone calls from this number will be similar or not. Time will tell in seeing if I receive any future calls from them.
I keep receiving a call from this number every day at various times.
A message gets left on my machine. It says something to the like of:
"This is the system verification service. We will call you back at another time."
Then it hangs up.
I find it annoying that they call at all. I just got this number less than a month ago and the calls seem to have started in the same week as the hookup. I signed up for the Do Not Call registry last week. I'll report again in a month and see if they have stopped after 31 days.