Ok, so I picked up today and the caller with a foreign accent stated that she worked for a health magazine I was subscribed to... and was asking to confirm address. I informed them I was busy, she continued, I hung up. They called back 3 times within a few minutes after that. I hung up without answering twice and had the voicemail pick up the 3rd call.
My co-worker claims she is receiving the same calls at work.
The magazines these people talk about are trade publications we have had an engineer in our company that has taken electronics trade magazines he has been retired several years now but we still get calls wanting to renew his subscriptions when told he is no longer here they ask for his replacement I don't transfer them to anyone and usually tell them no one is interested and hang up. recently the calls have been coming from North Dakota but they have come from a lot of different places and the person on the other end always has an accent.
Telemarketing call asking for lots of personal information to "renew" a subscription to a magazine I've never heard of (Federal Computing something or other)