They will not stop! I have got to the point of screaming at them and they will not stop! They change their numbers too! Why would anyone deal with a company like this?
A gentleman called from this # asking for a specific employee. I am almost sure he's called before, which is what prompted me to start asking questions of him. The employee he asked for works in a call center as an engineer, so when this guy called, I asked him if his call was regarding a service issue. He simply repeated that he was trying to reach "so and so". I said, "That's fine, but my question to you was whether or not your calling regarding a service call." He told me that he couldn't answer that. I asked if his call was a personal business call and he told me again that he was not allowed to divulge such information. I simply told him that if he cannot answer my questions then I cannot transfer his call. He began to protest, but I hung up on him!
I find it amazing that both of Tom Kelly's assistants called looking for people at the exact same time. I pointed this out to one of them who could only stammer.
There is a huge surge of scam calls coming from India, using a barrage of disposable US numbers. They name a person by name that is either entirely made up, partially made up, or is correct. They say they are calling on behalf of [another person's name] or on behalf of an organization whose name is known in the US. They could be just list-building. Or they could be ID thieves. At any rate, they're not legit, their phone numbers don't lead to any credible businesses, and blocking their numbers seems to do not much good, because they try again day after day with different phone numbers.
A tell-tale sign of this scam: when you ask what it's regarding, they flatly refuse the reason for the call but instead keep insisting to talk to the recipient.
A little further research: The same scam calls come from several exchanges throughout the US, but here are the phone numbers they seem to be using for Bowling Green, Virginia:
804-596-1073
804-596-1074
804-596-1075
804-596-1076
Strangely enough, the numbers ending 1072 and 1077 seem to involve the same sounding people (East Indian accents), but THOSE scams are about selling medical devices. I haven't gone further back or forward in my research, beyond that.
Helen, I hope you're right that they're just list builders. They're horrible, moral-less people, regardless.