GDS Scam [RE-wrenches]

[John Raynes]

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Travis,

We've had calls as well.  Couple different times over a 2-3 week 
period.  Joy (my wife/office mate) handles our incoming calls and she has a 
finely honed crap meter for this kind of stuff.  The guy insisted on 
talking to the "president of the company", though, and the first time, she 
let him through because he did make it sound as if he was from the DOE.  I 
never found out what the cost was because I told him to cut to the chase 
after about the first 10 seconds.  When he wouldn't, I hung up, and he 
called right back and started hurling the insults.

The next time he tried, a couple of weeks later, Joy was on to him and 
refused to let him speak with the "president".  The guy insisted he had 
done "extensive research" on our company, so Joy asked him what our 
president's name was, and he didn't know.  Another round of insults ensued 
(he accused Joy of either having a stammer or being an idiot), and that 
ended that attempt.  We haven't heard from him since, although we're not 
keeping regular hours right now so he may still be trying.

I'm more puzzled than angry.  If you're interrupting someone's day to try 
to sell them a lot of something that they neither need nor want, how is 
name calling and insulting supposed to help?  I mean, if you're going to go 
to all of the trouble (and risk) of running a scam, don't you at least want 
it to be as successful a scam as it can be?

John Raynes
RE Solar
Torrey UT


At 10:28 AM 12/18/03 -0600, you wrote:


>Is anyone else getting hounded by GDS to advertise in their
>"publication"?  I believe GDS stands for Government Data Solutions.
>When they call, they introduce themselves in such a way that you might
>think they ARE the Department of Energy....
>Travis Creswell
>Ozark Energy Services, Inc.

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