Called today @ 3:18 PM ET. CID displayed "SSI 828-419-0264". Answering machine message said, "Hi. Good day. This is Nicki Mandaz calling from Survey Sampling. May I speak with <me by name>? Hello? Is anyone on the line?"
http://www.surveysampling.com/
According to their website, they are a legitimate surveying company and are therefore exempt from US and Canadian DO NOT CALL lists restrictions. They have instructions on their website for opt-ing out of their call lists.
Called today @ 3:18 PM ET. CID displayed "SSI 828-419-0264". Answering machine message said, "Hi. Good day. This is Nicki Mandaz calling from Survey Sampling. May I speak with <me by name>? Hello? Is anyone on the line?"
http://www.surveysampling.com/
According to their website, they are a legitimate surveying company and are therefore exempt from US and Canadian DO NOT CALL lists restrictions. They have instructions on their website for opt-ing out of their call lists.
I forgot one thing. The area code and prefix on the CID are for Asheville, NC. According to their website, the closest office to Asheville is Charlotte, NC. So the number is bogus unless they have a call center not listed on the website or have a survey sampler calling from a home office phone.
Got a call at 5:39 pm yesterday 06-18-2014, didn't answer but they didn't leave a message either so knew it was unimportant and a bogus call wanting personal info. Never answer a call if its a number you don't know who it belongs to.
Got a call from this number yesterday asking if I was willing to take part in a survey about North Carolina politics, and the questions seemed legitimate at first.
But the "survey" ended with several positive sounding statements about (Republican Senator) Jim Davis, and the surveyor asking me after each one if I would be more, much more, less, or much less likely to vote for him in November based on each statement. This was followed followed by several very negative statements about (Democrat challenger) Jane Hipps asking me the same after each one.
I asked the surveyor who was behind this so called "survey" but he said he was just an operator who worked for a survey taking company, he didn't know who paid for the surveys.