Different callers keep calling from different numbers, including this one, ask for my correct name and incorrect last name. Ask random failing stupid questions and say "it's wrong number". What the hell do they want?
Received a call from this number on Sept. 26, 2013. Similar to the other comments, the caller had a (southern) accent and the line was a bad connection. The caller seemed rude, abrupt and disinterested "May I speak to XXX XXXX" -- asking for my boss by name -- pronunciation completely butchered. "May I ask who's calling?" -- Liz Brown (which I finally got after asking several times and apoligizing for the bad connection). "Thank you, is there a company name?" -- Ron German's office (she replies, repeatedly of course). When I ask her to hold and come back to pick up the line (preparing to ask "what is the nature of your call", she has hung up. Odd... I thought maybe I had disconnected her in error so I googled the area code and then the number and found this thread. Seems fitting that she would have been calling from a Call Centre! My women's intuition was right from the start.
A woman asked for one of our managers, claiming to be phoning on behalf of her boss. I asked what in reference to, but she had no idea, only that she was to connect our manager with her supervisor. When I said that we don't transfer calls without knowing the purpose, she said (in a rather gosh-golly-geewhiz manner), "Oh well, I don't know, I'll have to find out and get back to you. Thank you, darlin,'" and hung up. As I've noted on threads for other annoyance calls of this type, she won't return.
This number called my office today asking for our CEO by name. The guy had a very thick Indian accent and said his name was Tim Johnson and he was calling on behalf of Heather Brown. I put him on hold to check the number (I do this with most numbers since the calls that usually come through me are sales calls and I screen them out). He was on hold for about 15 seconds, then hung up.