A guy said he's calling from (or on behalf of?) IBM. Said he's not selling anything, but asked to Email an invite to a webinar demo-ing IBM's Cognos software. He gave his Email address with the domain name of bridgemetrics.com.
Very polite gentlemen said he was calling on behalf of Microsoft and asked to speak with the person in charge of our computer systems. I informed him I could not without a current point of contact. He was very understanding and polite and wished me a good weekend.
Said he was calling on behalf of IBM and wanted name of IT director to update their contact list. I asked what contact list. He said their contact list. I said I didn't know why they'd have a contact list with us on it; did we do any business with them. He said we had to have at one point had a transaction but couldn't identify what that transaction was. I declined to give him any info; said he could put president as contact name. He politely said good bye.
Interesting that everybody is getting a different company for the "calling on behalf of" line...
Woman on the line claimed she was calling on behalf of Lenovo and wanted to update our information, as well she asked for my email address. Did not give any info but she knew the business owners name/contact info.