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.
Caller ID showed call coming from Provo, UTAH, but caller announced hisself as calling from Tacoma, WA. Asked for the manager who handles the phonebook. But I just simply put him on hold for quite a while so that I could google this number, and then after a minute of holding told him to take us off their list. And slammed the phone in his ear. :D
Lady introduced herself as "Clark County Directoy".. but then had an airhead moment.. and couldnt think of her lines. She started "umm-ing" into the phone... So I just hung up on her.
Our front office manager answered a call from Zip Local. They asked her questions about our address and fax number! I thought it was suspicious so I went to go look online to see if there were any information on this phone number. I saw that it might be a scam so I told the office manager and she said "No its not a scam, they do phone directory", she pulled out a phone directory from Ziplocal! So not sure if it's a scam or not!
Most of the previous posts are old, but today had a call that obviously was not manually answered, went to voice message, checked for message left & all there was a back ground voices obviously in some scam artist's boiler room. I believe it to be a scam or they would have left a message. After all, some one calling from the west coast to a VT business will have to suck his/her [***] hard trying to get money for ANYTHING out of us! Obvious NOT 'local'!