Call came at 7:32 pm 7/12/13. Tons of noise in the background. Woman with thick accent said she was from Gold Rush something. Said I wasn't interested. She said oh, not a sales call, blah, blah. I should've hung up, but said Fine, what's it about. Sarcasm wasted. She says she has to get her manager to talk to me. He comes on the line, starts telling me about an open house or something for Gold Rush, "here in unintelligible city." I tell him I can't hear him, and where is he? Same garbled name. He keeps saying "Okay? Okay?" I said NO! Stop talking to me and never call here again, never. I hung up. It felt like he wanted me to say yes, which would maybe have me agreeing to something I don't want. I'm a little concerned because they did know my name. I am on the Do Not Call list, but it didn't help. I hope I don't get this call again, but maybe I'll take the advice of a previous poster and fake 'em out with an accent of my own. Or, since I know their phone number, I could answer "Thank you for calling the office of the California Attorney General for Consumer Affairs." There is such an office! It MIGHT scare them.
I had suspected this was a telemarketer calling so I decided to answer; the caller had a foreign accent. When I asked how she got my phone number since I was listed on the National Do Not Call List, she hung up. So I decided to return their call and initially got a recording that stated the caller I wanted was not available but I was allowed to let the phone ring at least 15 times, all to no avail.
Am really tired of these calls that start at five minutes after 5:00 pm. I now answer suspect calls with an accent. It is easy to draw these idiots out if they think you don't clearly understand. They had my and my husband's first names which truly bothers me. As soon as they hung up on me, I blocked them, and sure enough they called back in 3 minutes. Being on the Do Not Call lists is meaningless. These jerks operate under the "catch me if you can" philosophy and they get away with it. Run them around in circles if you can pull off a phony accent. It takes their time, and time is money and they'll stop bugging thinking you don't get it Joke's on them!
This person called a week or so ago. Beeped in on call waiting while I was on the phone. I hung up and answered. A woman with an accent so thick I couldn't understand her, never could understand the company after she repeated it several times but I did get Edmond, OK. I don't believe this person is in Edmond, OK. The area code is wrong and I can understand people from Edmond. After Edmond, OK she started rambling on, couldn't understand a word she was saying other than maybe "call center". I finally interrupted her, told her I had to get off another call to answer her call and that she should remove my number from their system since I won't talk to people who can't speak English to where I can understand them. What sounded like the same woman called again today at 6:12pm. Still couldn't understand the company, just "in Edmond, OK". After two or three tries I just told her she was supposed to remove my number from her system and not to call again because I don't talk to people I can't understand. I hung up. Not holding my breath that she doesn't call back.
Definitely phishing or some scam. Tried to "put me at ease" with do you live in Edmond... Claimed to be with Southwest Airlines and Summit travel, offering cruise or vacation trip. Don't bother, the feeling you have that this isn't right is right, just hang up.