CID still showing INVALID NUMBER - woman who was easy to understand asked for the business owner. I set the receiver down on my desk until she hung up around thirty seconds later. She did not call back. A legitimate caller would likely call back since this would be rude treatment to a legitimate caller.
CID showed INVALID NUMBER - mumbly mouthed guy said he was from (?) - sounded like NFIB which is the National Federation of Independent Businesses a small business association that is a legitimate lobbyist organization though it can certainly be a pain in the backside regardless-but I suspect this caller actually said something else and was mumbling so I thought that this was what he said. He then asked to verify basic business information-like our address-like can be determined in two seconds on the internet, phonebook or a variety of other ways so I hung up on him. Even if and it's a big IF, this wasn't a scam call, it was a waste of my time.
Caller asked for the owner of the business I manage. He is an absentee owner who leaves a bulk of the business to me to handle. They were pretending to be a power company that we do not use. When I said the owner wasn't available to speak with as they called my personal cellphone they hung up. When I tried to call back to verify the validity of the call it's busy like a fake phone line.
Received a call from this number. A lady claimed she was from JEA and she told me how many lights we had on campus. She said that we qualified for a program where they come and change all our bulbs out to new "energy saving bulb". She said that it was FREE and that JEA will pay for it. That is when I asked her if she was with JEA. She told me that she was with Future Energy Solutions. She asked if our lights are on from dusk until dawn. I told her that I didn't know. I asked for her telephone number and I would call her back. She wouldn't give it to me. She said she would call me back later to find out. I was advised to not answer the call when she called back. She never left a message. Everytime I call her number, it is busy. I tried researching the company with the BBB. There was one complaint saying that this company promises things, but never follows through. I believe this is a scam. Will update if they call again.
Interesting - received a similar call from 754-779-9631, guy said his name was Kyle, that he was from Future Energy Solutions. Also wanted to give us "Free" lighting. Said he was working with some of our farms already (we have no farms).