This guy with a thick accent (SE Asia, probably) asked to speak to one of our former owners, problem is the name of this owner hasn't been here since 2007...I told him that owner hasn't been since 2007 so of course he asked for the name or number of the new owner and I asked him what this was in regard to and he replied that "this is not a sales call" and I said "This doesn't answer my question, the new owner is hundreds of miles from here and I need the reason you are calling before I give out his info" and he then said, "it is an urgent business matter"...I told him "it can't be that urgent if you're calling for a guy who hasn't been here since 2007"...he then said, "Just give me the number"...And I said, "Not without a reason, this sounds like a sales call to me and he doesn't take sales calls", and he said, "This isn't a sales call. Are you going to give me his name or his number?" and I said, "Not without a valid reason to, I can only take a message for him" and after a little more brief back-and-forth he said, "ok, have a nice day"...
This is definitely a sales call or some kind of scam...I get these every day and it just has that smell...
Just got a call from a man, with a heavy accent. He asked to speak with a man who hasn't been here for a year. Also, this guy didn't even know he was asking to speak with a priest, as this is a church. I told him to remove our name/number if this is a sales call. He said it wasn't. He then wanted to speak with the owner, I again had to tell him that this was a church & after he stammered a bit, I hung up on him.
Different guy called today, accent not as thick, but they must be taking notes because they didn't ask for the owner by name this time (the 1st time they had the owner from 3 or 4 regimes ago and 5 years ago), they just asked for the owner...And I said he isn't here and then he asked for the co-owner and I said they are all in Virginia and then he hung up...
I expect this won't be the last call...It is a sales call, for sure, or just an out-and-out scammer...