830-637-7238

Got a one-day break from the 4-times-a-day calls. Answered yesterday and spoke with "Curtis" purportedly from JDA (see earlier post). But now a day later got another call from same number 830-637-7238 so it starts again. I answer and this time it is “Kevin Murphy” (with an Indian accent) from IMTS. I challenged him that yesterday a call from this same number claimed to be a company called JDA and now he claims it is IMTS. Went round and round about whether it was from this number and how that could be (as if I didn’t know). A number of times he attempted to start his survey, “Well, can I just ask you a few questions…” but I kept asking for a website I could look at before answering questions and a phone number or email address to call him back. He told me the company could be found at IMTS.COM. Fine, I’ll check it out and give him a call back when I know more about IMTS. All told I burned six minutes of his time as I would explain I could not answer any questions about our company until I could confirm he is who he claims to be and have opportunity to look into exactly who IMTS is. Yeah it burned six minutes of my time too, but it felt just a little bit good to hear him get frustrated that he basically couldn’t get past the fact that he was actually lying to me about who he is.

Caller type: Surveyor
Caller: Kevin Murphy
Company: IMTS
Number: 830-637-7238

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Have been getting calls from this 830-637-7238 number four times a day consistently for the last two weeks but have never answered it. They've been ringing my phone exactly four times each day, usually about within half an hour of 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM Monday through Friday.

Today I finally decided to answer it and play along to find out what the storyline would be. "Curtis" (with an Indian accent) says he is with JDA. Says that Mr. ________ (the correct name of my company's CEO) had communicated with Curtis and that our CEO had suggested that Curtis contact me as the VP of ________ (providing my correct title). He wanted to setup a meeting between me and his manager, James Stafford, next week to discuss JDA's product. I told him I wanted to review what JDA has to offer by looking over their website first. Only after that would I decide whether or not to setup such a meeting. Curtis told me JDA's website is JDA.com.

I asked for James Stafford's phone number and Curtis gave me the number 830-637-7238. Curtis suggested he could email the correspondence between JDA and our CEO for me to review. I declined telling him that our company policy doesn't allow us to give out our email address to cold callers. He said that it's not necessary for me to tell that because he already had my email address, it is _______ (reciting my correct email address). I said nevertheless I'd prefer not to receive email until after I had opportunity to review the JDA.com website and I would contact James if I was interested. I asked if I could get James's email address and he told me his address is david.stuttard@jpa.com. Doing a Google search of the Name "David Stuttard" with JDA, of the name "James Stafford" with JDA, and of the phone number 830-637-7238 I couldn't find anything.

JDA (JDA.com) does seem to be a major and reputable company dealing in areas that would be applicable to my field, so clearly between this fact and all the other details Curtis provided, this seems a fairly targeted cold calling campaign. Still there is no way our CEO directed them to me without letting me know. And it ticks me off that they call incessantly sometimes leaving stupid phone messages of nothing more than half a minute of music.

Caller type: Telemarketer
Caller: curtis
Company: JDA
Number: 830-637-7238

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