These [***] telemarketers, scammers, collecting agencies, surveyors and other are using "nick" names of well known companies to extract information, verify the person's name and personal information. I must say that there is a Federal law protecting PHI and PII so if they got this information from you without your authorization you can suit these [***] sorry assess. However once they got the information you are lost. So NEVER EVER ANSWER THIS CALLS even if they have names of well known companies. Actually by default we block any call and we call back if it is a well known source.
stated they were calling on behalf of time warner cable with special offers because my current offers/discounts were going to expire soon. They had my name & address information. Then he was "gathering the offers available in my area", but that took him over 3 min. I researched the number while waiting, found it was a scam, and hung up.