Anyone had an unsolicited call from "the Medical Alert Service"?
This organisation called my landline this morning. The caller didn't address me by name but introduced himself as Alex from the Medical Alert Service and said that they understood that I might be eligible for a medical alert pendant, free of charge. He then immediately asked if I was over 50, which I didn't answer.
I told him that I had not requested any such call and asked how he had obtained my number. Not satisfied with the assertion that his manager gave him a list of people to call every morning, I asked what name was associated with my number on that list - which he did not answer. I repeated the question, varying the wording slightly, twice but he avoided answering and ended the call.
Does this sound familiar?
If he'd had any form of my name as well as the number, I'd be wondering which of the organisations I'd recently first dealt with might have shared my details.
The lack of a name to go with the number suggests that they might have called me by random dialling, although I didn't notice the characteristic pause before the caller took over from a machine.
I told him that I had not requested any such call and asked how he had obtained my number. Not satisfied with the assertion that his manager gave him a list of people to call every morning, I asked what name was associated with my number on that list - which he did not answer. I repeated the question, varying the wording slightly, twice but he avoided answering and ended the call.
Does this sound familiar?
If he'd had any form of my name as well as the number, I'd be wondering which of the organisations I'd recently first dealt with might have shared my details.
The lack of a name to go with the number suggests that they might have called me by random dialling, although I didn't notice the characteristic pause before the caller took over from a machine.
