I work for a major hospital as an admin in the IT department. I get tons of calls from companies like this. The person who called had a heavy accent and the connection was bad. She asked for someone who no longer worked there, then asked for three people in other departments, then tried to get me to connect her with our IT manager. When I asked her for HER information, she backpeddled and said she would call back later. I have learned to keep a running log of all calls. I just look at the caller ID and don't answer if the number is on my "persistant vendor / spam" log.
I ahem received numerous calls on my company cell phone from this company. Always a woman I cannot understand, and always pushing white papers. Here is the thing. You may be happy to get the white paper via your email, but you have just provided them with a valid email address that they can then add to their list of emails to sell to other spammers. They are not doing this for free - they are gaining from these calls. And they are ignoring the fact that they are violating the law. Report them repeatedly!@
This is BS, only a fool would believe this post. Why do you search for a number from a company sending you whitepapers? Especially this being first post. If you believe this post, you get what you deserve.
they have called me 5-6 times a day, each time I have told them I am not interested and hang up on them. Now, whenever they call I immediately ask for a supervisor or manager and they hang up on me. I cannot see the number they are calling from and really want to report them for for continuing to harass me after I have told them so many times to never contact me again.