Caller immediately tried to play the smooth talker role and then confirm whether I was in charge of purchasing light bulbs and janitorial supplies without disclosing her name or company. When asked she stated she was calling from "Commercial" in a tone as if we had done business for years, which we have not. She promised to send gifts to my home address when I told her I could not accept them. I informed her I do not do business that way so she suggested shipping to the work address.
She attempted to confirm my name, trying in desperation to push out product, however, claiming it was only to send their catalog in a cooler. So many red flags it is not funny. Should you receive a call, I would recommend hanging up on these scammers.
Just got a call. He said he was the lighting guy. He asked for my boss by his first name. He said that he was Charlie with Commercial. I said he wasn't available. Then he asked for my boss's cell number. I told him that he wasn't available by phone. He then hung up on me. Good, because I don't give out his cell number.
The callers from 813-514-1266 try to SCAM you into "confirming" a shipment of light bulbs. They target victim are businesses and they will ask you to confirm that "----insert name----" ordered the bulbs and you just need to confirm the address. They get the name from a previous call asking 'who is in charge of _______'.
"Nichol" called our company this morning asking for our CFO by name. She was talking fast and kind of garbled. I went down the hall to ask my CFO is he knew someone named Nicole and he said no but would take the call anyway. If I had known that this was a scammer telemarketer I would never let her through. These people need to be reported. If you get a call from this number just hang up.
I just got off the phone with a man calling from this number... he asked me who the building manager was... we do not have a building manager... but an operations manager yes, he then said he would be calling him back at a later time... I quickly looked up the number (like i always do when random calls such as this catch my attention) and low and behold... SCAM!!! I immediatly advised my ops. manager if this number calls him to not speak with him or her!!!