Now it's Global Direct.  Bad jokes about wife, Home Depot cards and through out one of our other employee's names.  Warned him I was part Irish, should have told him Bayern with Dower Scotch mixed in.

Got the same call and he was acting like he knew me.  Said he needed a PO for the flourescent bulbs.  I said we did not need any bulbs and that we do not give out PO numbers unless we know who we are dealing with.  He said well enjoy your gift cards.

Come on man.  Do I sound like I was born yesterday.

calls himself jeff now,still has same wife jokes. giving away home depot cards,wants mailing address,then ask for po number to send light bulbs. says he works for global lighting now.

Pretty much the same as others have reported. This time he did not even attempt to sell me anything, ask for a PO or anything else. Next time ask for a picture of his wife!

Another bogus call from this number. His boss just made a deal with home Depot gift cards. The he abruptly hung up as i was saying I have never bought anything from his company.. did not try to sell me anything as i was probalby sounding not too interested.

Asked for person in charge, wouldn't say why.  TOld we needed information to forward calls, he told us to go to hell.

This is a scam outfit.
Report to Atty General's office in PA.

Got a call from Joe from United. He made small talk with me then he said your maintenance guy just placed an order but I can't remember what his name is. I asked him what his name was and he said Joe from United. He tried to get the name of him out of me again and I said well hold on please. I went and talked to our guy who is head of our maintenance and he said I don't know who it is but I love to mess with those guys. When I went back to the call he had already hung up. Nice try JOE!! :o)

Calls himself Matt now.  Same thing with the wife jokes. Tried to sell us 55 gallon trash bags.

Just as above, a man (saying his name was "Joe") called asking for our maintenance guy.  He claimed that our maintenance guy had JUST called him to place an order and asked me "what his name was again".  When he got a hold of our purchasing manager he launched into the free gift card/issue me a PO#/we'll re-order your florescent lightbulbs for you spiel that others have mentioned.

A man called asking for our maintenance guy.  He claimed that our maintenance guy had JUST called him to place an order and asked me "what his name was again".  When I told him that our maintenance guy died a month ago he said "Oh.....wow." and hung up.
Stay classy, United!

Did you find out who this scamster is

Guy called from United Industrial and said name was Joe and kept saying he had free gift card multiple times and offerring his wife as well. Asked for a PO# after asking if we still use flourescent bulbs. I told him we do verbal PO when we know who we are talking to... He kept saying enjoy your gift card??????

Man asked for maintenance. I asked who was calling. He said, "(his name)". I asked what company he was from and he said from United Industrial. I asked do we normally deal with his company?  He said that our maintenance guy had called him to ask the balance of an invoice they had sent. "And by the way, what was our maintenance guy's name?"

First, we do not deal with United Industrial, so we do not have any invoices with them.  And second, our "maintenance guy" does not deal with paying the invoices and he would not have called and asked for the invoice amount.

The guy lied in order to get through.  I put him on hold. He hung up.