Scam call. Most likely an international call center calling to scam us. Asking to install home security system inexchange for advertising. But I suspect that they have intentions of putting a video camera to tape unsuspecting homeowners for their nefarious agenda. BEWARE. They are trying to especially target elderly people. SCAM
This particular call is from a "Home Security" company. However, it appears that they don't work for a particular company, they just harvest potential customers for several clients. I get so many of these crap calls that I have made it into a game, and it works no matter whether the caller is selling home security or time shares or credit card rate reductions or whatever...
Lovely female computer voice starts call. Ask her for a real person and she will tell you that she IS a real person, but is using a computer assistant. This step screens the call. Answer the qualifying questions - doesn't have to be truthful - and you will be connected with an "agent" who has a thick Indian or [***] accent. Play the game, keep them engaged for as long as you can. Let them do their sales pitch, but interrupt them to ask stupid questions. Ask them to repeat what they just said because you couldn't understand them. Compliment their "lovely" / "exotic" accent; Ask where they are from. Respond with, something like, "Oh, I understand it is beautiful there. I have always wanted to visit there." Ask where they are calling from. Most likely they will answer that they are at a call center in Dallas (BS). Ask how the weather is there. Say something like, "I understand you are having bad/good weather there," just to see if they can give an accurate response. Ask what time it is where they are. Remember, keep them on the line. It is like fishing, you don't jerk the line when you get a nibble. They have to feel like there is a potential sale. Let them do their pitch. Just keep controlling the conversation. The longer you keep them occupied, the more it hurts their pocketbook. I pride myself on consistently getting 10 to 12 minutes, sometimes as much as 20. I particularly like hearing the frustration mounting in their voices. If they don't hang up on me, I will, depending on my mood, eventually either 1. thank them and say "I'm really not interested," and hang up, or 2. angrily tell them that I have kept them on the line long enough to trace their call, and accuse them of lying about their location, putting out false Caller ID information, violating federal law, and anything else that might come to mind. Maybe my next gambit will be to have them send out an installer, but give them a bad address and name. If they already have a correct address, I will tell them that is the old address. It's a game, and the better you play it, the better you will feel about being as irritating to them as they are to you. Have fun, that's what it's all about.
I keep getting calls from this number. Of course, they never leave a message. I do believe from the other notes here that they are indeed a persistent annoyance with not value. I looked the number up from a site I joined. It lets you listen to their voice mail message privately. Indeed it matches up with what was said earlier. Blocking them for now and will report also.
This had me rolling!!! I too just got the call and said hello - she said hi I'm calling about a home security system how are you today? I said I'd be a lot better if you would never call me again. She was nice and said will add me to the removal list.