These people are phishing for information - do not answer their questions!
They have been calling for the past few weeks/months trying to get information from our users. They claim to have relevant whitepapers to send to us, but they require personal and business information from us before they can proceed. Each time they call they claim to be from a different company. They are definitely trying to extract information from our users, which will probably be used to either scam them, or to sell the gathered information.
Caller: "I MUST speak to, <name>." ( Caller is a woman. She asked for our IT person by name. She sounds like she just got in from a 3-mile run.)
Me (non-IT rube): "Ok. I'll have her call you. She's not here."
Caller: "But I can only speak to him."
Me: "He is a she." (Isn't there a lot of that in India?)
Caller: "Ok. I need her to talk to her immediately!" (Fat effing chance.)
Me: "Ok. What's your number?"
Caller: "No. I MUST speak to her." (Desperation setting in. Do they get lashed for not getting through to their target?")
Me: "Ok. What's your number?" (At this point she started mumbling.)
Caller: "Uh. Oh. Wait. Here it is: 571-223-7950. I must speak to her immediately." (Callers direct line according to them.)
Her name is "Wendy". I'm pretty sure she's in the one of the lovely cities of either Chennai or Pune. Maybe I should have asked her to email me a picture of her with a fish on her head while holding a glass of milk in her right hand. It worked for some fratboys with a nigerian. I was fantastic.
Caller currently on hold while i write this Review
Caller tells me to direct the call to a co-worker- i respond by asking who is calling- she gives me a name i cant understand (lots of noise in background and a thick accent) i ask her to repeat the company name and she does- its "it weekly"
i ask what the call is regarding and her reply was "internet service provider" so i asked "ok- what about it??" she paused and asked me again to direct her call to the co worker she had asked for...so i explained that i needed to know what the call was regarding and she again stated- its regarding "internet service provider" so i replied "ok- but what about it?" and she didnt seem to understand my questions. i put her on hold until she hung up
I have probably had over 50 calls (maybe more!) from these people (all whom have accents), from this number and others, all asking for a particular person by name who isn't even in this office! She's in another of our offices. I ask them what they want and they mention some document and IT... they ask for office manager. I tell them to take this number off their call list, but they still call. I wish there was someplace we can complain. If I get calls now that ask for this person, I just hang up. It's very annoying and distracting.
Got call saying they were part of GlobalEdge Technologies. She wanted to send me white-paper on a new "VOIP" system, however she couldn't even tell me what VOIP stood for. I told her we were happy with our phone system and hungup. Scam