When I see some of these unknown numbers, I give it straight to my nieces (between 1-2 years old), who then speak a better language than these a**holes and their bullsh*t. Gibberish. Rather than get upset, it makes my day.
I happen to work for Manulife Securities Inc. and I am one of the individuals that makes calls from that number. It is not a scam. Cold calling is actually a common practice in financial planning industry. I can assure you that if you had come in for a consultation with any of the advisors at this branch you would not have made this post.
Obviously the failures at Manulife Securities cannot get any business through legitimate channels and need to resort to robo-calls. Report them to the CRTC for violation of Do Not Call List and use of illegal robo-dialers.
You are however complete [***] for using predictive dialling machines and placing those dead air space calls when an agent/[***] is not available to handle the call.
And you are [***] for calling numbers at random and assuming your time is more valuable than those you are calling and for calling numbers that have not specifically indicated that your are allowed to call them.
As well you are [***] as your caller id should identify the company you are calling from instead of saying "UNKNOWN CALLER".
By the way, did I mention that you are a bunch of [***] ?
You mention that cold calling is actually a common practice in financial planning industry. Well molesting children is a common practice in the catholic church but guess what, just because other people do it doesn't make it right.
But if you understood that you wouldn't be the [***] making cold calls would you ?