I got the same message just now, but from a woman. She said she wanted to be connected to the CEO and I said our phone system does not allow that and that I could take a message and pass it on. She then said she is calling from FEDEX and has a package for him and his email address is not working. She then hung up on me abruptly.
I just received a call from this number. The caller had a very thick accent that made it very difficult to understand him. He gave one of our VPs as a reference, and stated that he was doing research for a college project. Hope he gets a good grade, since the call was suspicious from the outset, so I gave him completely bogus information. :-)
4 calls just this morning (2/13/13)! I keep hitting decline. It's almost worth having my company block the number, in fact I'll tell IT now haha, thanks for the heads up.
They've called me 3 times in the past 2 days from 213.283.6417. I haven't taken their calls and they haven't left me a message. I have a feelig they will call again.
I have had 9 MISSED CALLS on my phone from 001 213 283 6417, most of which were one after the other, whilst I was away from my desk in meetings. I tried to call back but no response so thought I'd Google the number to see who it was as I didn’t recognise it.
Sounds like it was a good job I missed them to save me wasting time. They'll probably call again going by the persistence of today’s number of calls, but glad I checked on here to read the comments.
Thanks for the heads up everyone.