Someone has a blog post about them and also has a YouTube video of dealing with them. His blog post is at: http://asliceofbigpauly.wordpress.com/2012/10 ... slow-them-down/ He also managed to get connected to one of their other numbers (in California) that you can dial into. The other number is 949-202-1151. That number looks familiar and may be the other number they use when they spam me with calls. Their other number is definitely a California call starting with 949 area code.
It's a spammer company trying to hide behind Google's name and reputation (by making themselves sound like they are calling from Google or aligned with Google), so they can convince you your business will be listed as "closed" if you don't update your Google Places business profile. Then they try to push you to buy their services, charging you $100 or more to make an update to your listing that would take you less than 5 minutes to login yourself and make.
Yeah, I am not a business, I don't own a business, and I am sick to death of these kinds of calls coming to my personal cell phone. I sometimes feel like putting my number on the do not call registry just makes more of these calls come, not less.
These losers just tried calling and telling my assistant that my business was going to be de-listed from Google. Because this didn't make any sense, I Googled the phone number. Presto. They are scammers. I LOVE sites like this. It makes our lives SO much easier.
Called our office. These people need a new work order. Same old scamming procedures. Great that people know their routine. Keep up the listing of these people.