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I do not think this is an advance fee scam. I think the pay-per-call commenter is closest. Here's what I think is happening. A marketing firm has told some l

by davidu 15y ago

I do not think this is an advance fee scam. I think the pay-per-call commenter is closest. Here's what I think is happening. A marketing firm has told some local businesses that it will do online marketing and other marketing activities to drive leads in the form of calls to the business. The marketing campaigns will focus on specific issues (like insurance coverage for weight loss). It's not atypical for a marketing agency or demand generation company to guarantee a certain number of leads per campaign -- eg, if you spend $1,000 with us, we will guarantee you get 50 leads. I think a call-based / real-world demand generation agency is stuffing the leads for their customers because the actual campaigns aren't delivering.

ilamont 15y ago
If it's a lead-gen scam, shouldn't bogus contact/address info be the central part of the scheme? Also, the six-minute requirement on the first call doesn't fit with a lead-gen scam. It actually seems like it would really drain the resources of a small company trying to drum up business.
- badmonkey0001 15y ago
  The phone number and extension is probably what's used to identify where the "sales lead" came from. As for the long-calls, there's probably a minimum connection time before the lead is considered "valid". "aaron" is probably telling everyone 6 minutes keeping in mind that this is a Craig's labor pool and they will probably only really do 2 minutes on average.