I don't mean to question your opinion, but just because I call a number and ask for someone by name means I want to collect a debt? In sales, I've called thousands of numbers over the past 25 years and never once was looking for money owed.
Now I don't blame you for feeling that way because the debt collectors are so annoying they overshadow sales calls. But by law the caller must tell you if this is an effort to collect a debt if you ask them directly.
If you read my response directly above yours you will understand who this company is and what they do, (verifying information for industrial magazine to be sent). Currently I receive about 20 or so and they are really useful to keep informed about innovations in the IT field. However, once or more times per year, the publisher requires that I verify my information, (address, job title, etc.)to continue receiving the publication.
Or, you may have subscribed to a home improvement magazine and this is a company trying to solicit additional titles from you. The loophole in our DO Not Call Registry is if you or anyone at the phone number ever had any dealing with a company this caller represents, then they are not held liable by the Federal Do Not Call Registry. You obviously have a computer, so I suggest you look it up to become an educated consumer.
And give your brother-in-law a break - this is one caller that isn't looking for money!
Calls here several times a day and the phone rings many times before they hang up, and within a few seconds they call back !! The I.D. reads NEXTIX-TEST. I do not answer it because I do not know who they are. We get too many telemarketers, and i am sick of it.
This number started calling me last week and now will NOT stop! It is my cell phone and they call me during the day when I cannot answer. They never leave a message, just call me EVERYDAY!
I started getting calls on my work line from this number two weeks ago.
Today I answered a call and there was nothing on the other line so I hung up. Then it rang again.
Then it rang a third time and left a message that was all 'gobbledygook'. It sounded as if somebody had accidentally called from their cell phone and all you hear was background noise of different people speaking. But it was weird also because it sounded like a recording that would stop periodically and then start over. The "message" lasted until my recorded timed out.