The telemarketer casually asked for an owner by their first name... I asked who was calling and he simply gave his first name. Then I asked where he was calling from and he tried to casually act surprised that he had forgotten to say, "Oh! from United AMG". When I explained I'm not familiar with that company and asked him to explain, he told me that it "has to do with employee benefits and that's why he needed to speak with an owner." I actually handle all of the employee benefits and know for a fact we have no association with this telemarketing company.
The telemarketer casually asked for an owner by their first name... I asked who was calling and he simply gave his first name. Then I asked where he was calling from and he tried to casually act surprised that he had forgotten to say, "Oh! from United AMG". When I explained I'm not familiar with that company and asked him to explain, he told me that it "has to do with employee benefits and that's why he needed to speak with an owner." I actually handle all of the employee benefits and know for a fact we have no association with this telemarketing company.
This person called my business and asked for me by name. When I said, "Speaking," they hung up. I see from the notes here that they were a telemarketer.
I'm going to post this in every forum there is on these type of calls. I'm the HR Director at our nonprofit. About two weeks ago I got a phone call from these losers that identified themselves as United AMG Health Care Reform Program, and said they had a benefits package specifically and only for employers with less than 100 employees. I told him we had 240 employees. He said, in a very surprised voice, "You don't have just 24?" I said no, and he kept talking. I interrupted him, and I said, "I thought you said your program was only for employers with less than 100 employees. That doesn't apply to us." He said, "Oh, um, well, we also have programs for larger employers." I hung up on him. Fast forward to today. I got a phone call from a different person from the same company, different telemarketer, a woman this time. She says, amazingly enough, that she is called from United AMG and they have a health care program only available to employers with less than 300 people!! I said, "Oh, that's interesting. When someone called me a couple weeks ago, when you guys thought we only had 24 employees, it was a plan for only companies with less than 100. Now that you know we are 240, all of a sudden it's less than 300 employees! Take us off your list and don't ever call us again!" I'm not sure if I'm more outraged at their unscrupulousness or at the fact that they think I'm stupid enough to not figure that out!!! Ridiculous!!