Confusing phone call
June 23rd, 2008 — CyberCatI got a confusing phone call a little while ago. Some fellow, who barely spoke English, called me up and wanted to send me a fax in connection with one of my websites. And while I was perfectly willing to listen to whatever it was that he wanted to talk to me about, I could not understand what he was trying to say that he wanted to send to me. When I tried to discern just what it was he was trying to say he wanted to send to me, he quickly thanked me and said goodbye, hanging up before I could say anything.
My best guess is that, since I have not done anything with the site in a year and it is about 10 years old (so a nice established domain name), I assume he wanted to send me an offer to buy it. No chance I’d think about selling that site though, other sites I have - make me an offer, I’ll consider selling for the right price, but I seriously doubt anyone would offer me an amount on that particular site that would entice me into selling it.
Whatever he had wanted, it really don’t concern me much. He did not want it badly enough to slow down his speed talking and discuss options for my having him fax the information to a local place like Mail Boxes Etc or the UPS store for me to pick it up, hanging up on me when I did not have a fax sitting beside me, so he obviously did not want to talk to me that badly about whatever it was.
Which leaves me assuming the guy was fishing for information, I just don’t know what sort of information. I would like to know if anyone else has had unsolicited phone calls in regards to their websites from a fast talking fellow speaking broken English. My first assumption was the guy wanted me to renew the domain through his service - but that domain is a long way from needing to be renewed (a year away from it). I guess he could have been working off of an old list that was printed out before I renewed that domain, but…. Iiiiii duunoooo… sounds fishy and spammy and just all around like a scam of some kind to me since he talked so fast and would not talk about alternate ways he could send me whatever it was he was wanting to send to me.









