Cyndy, I have received this call on 3 different days. I finally did pick up today. I said 'may I help you' and no one answered - finally hung up. I too am in software related field.
Got a call from them today. I'm sort of in IT. Does anyone here use Salesforce? It's about the only place I can remember giving my information to recently.
Wow! Thanks AIO! Nice list. I am a receptionist for a fairly large compnay and honestly 20% + calls daily are BS calls. I get so sick of them. I'm glad I've found this site. It's really helpful when I have some one on the line and can't tell it the are a legit call or not. Thanks again for the list.
I just received a call from this number. It is IBM Rational Software Group. I had downloaded a whitepaper, and they are following-up to see what my needs are. So it is basically a sales call from IBM for business software. (I call it a survey below, because there is no option for business to business sales, and I would not classify this as telemarketer)
A common scam in the 70s was used a lot by office supply companies. And, yes, today it would be called phishing but it goes further than that. After getting some critical names---such as the office manager's---invoices for all sorts of things would start showing up. The amounts were not large and most companies would pay them without further investigation. But multiply the bogus invoices by a million and you have a tidy sum.
Of course, no product was ever delivered. Or, if something did get delivered it might be something like a dozen boxes of staples ---no big deal. But "box" would be a gross of small staple boxes of 1000 or 1,628,000 staples. A large corporation would pay for the goods and it would be months before it got things straightened out.By that time, the scammers would be long gone. Beware!
Cyndy, I have received this call on 3 different days. I finally did pick up today. I said 'may I help you' and no one answered - finally hung up. I too am in software related field.