Telemarketers wouldn't be evasive or lying about the service they're offering, or about prior contact/communication.
These are skip tracing calls, aren't they? They're trying to get information about your address, to sell to bad debt holders.
I'll bet everyone posting in this comment thread has charged off credit cards in their history. I do. Is that correct? Please post so we can all confirm.
As soon as I picked up the phone, I could tell that I was getting a call from a boiler room of sorts. When a man came on the phone, he said that his name is Bill Woods. After that, the call was disconnected and I made sure that it is now disconnected permanently. BLOCKED.
Caller said he had done work on my home a while back. I said I had never spoken with him before. He kept insisting and what work would I like to do next. I told him I'm a renter. He had no response to that and I hung up.