It really does not matter how nice or polite they are. They are forcing companies to pay someone to talk to them while they make cold calls to peddle their wares. They are thieves -- stealing time from companies that have no interest in doing business with them. Every company can find what they need when they need it. Cold calls are an invasion into my day and the work that I should produce for my company. I am never polite to them. I do not owe them that. Neither does my employer. They claimed to be with Centrury Link. JUST PLAIN LIARS.
Filthy spamming/scamming bastiges. No doubt trying to slam my current phone service to theirs. Do not speak to or communicate with these vermin thieves. Their employees who are complicit in these crimes, should be arrested right along with the owner and locked away in jail for a long time for this criminal activity.
I just got off the phone with one of their minions who was "shocked" that I thought she was trying to scam us. I said, look- I know how this works, you are recording this and then are going to use it to say that I gave you permission to be listed in your stupid directory. Well, we have a block on our phone account so you can't slam us!
Minion- No, that's not what we do at all, but I'll take your business off our list.
They know they are ripping off small businesses. They know it, and don't care, because they "can't get any other job". How about making license plates you thieves!!!
If you find you're getting a lot of these directory scammers, call up your telephone provider and tell them to put a block, freeze or whatever they call it in your area, on your account so that third parties cannot add charges to your bill. There is no limit to what these criminals will think of to prove you authorized the charges- but as long as you have a block on your account, they can make up all the false charges they want, they won't be able to add them to your phone bill.