The number called and it was in response to my Google ad campaign. It was a welcomed call as my ads went live. As for cold calling, why would it not work. If you have Grant CARDONE making a cold call ill bet you it would be incredible!

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I just called the 800 number and asked for the actual name of the company and was told they could not give that out.  THIS IS NOT GOOGLE.  Any company failing to identify themselves posing as Google Advertising is a SCAM.  I am willing to bet that the posts saying it is not a scam are from the company that is scamming.
DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER.

scam or not.. I just wish they woudl quit calling..  I told them no very nicely and they call back next day.  I ask them to remove my number..  they call back again.. If they can not respect my wishes then screw them..

Get a whistle. Talk softly until the telescammer turn up the volume then BLAST AWAY.

Effective and satisfying!

Try answering your phone and asking them to stop!

Actually no one in this office is in at 4am..... no matter where you are (except HI).

Wow this is some pretty harsh words here...If I were David I wouldn't be so happy

Google selling ads.

Got a call from them 3 days ago at 4 a.m. !!!! Today they called back at 5 a.m. !!!! I am PISSED OFF!!! Telemarketing 101... The first lesson is know what time it is when you call someones home!!! I am calling a manager once I calm down. Stupid, Stupid mistake!!!!! Didn't expect that from Google....

You say your a google rep with that mouth?

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You are right!

I am organically #1 and #1 in local in my categories so no one can make me better.

How can they make me higher than #1? Top Dog? Top of the Pyramid?

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This number keeps calling my cell how do I stop calls

I have gotten phone calls from india or oversees and had someone screaming and cursing at me. The FTC and Do Not Call List does not work 100%. We have illigal drugs brought into this contry and packaged and advertised to be something else. So this system we have has huge gaping holes in it. You obviously are not a realist. CASE CLOSED...

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This is not Google. This company does not work for Google. They are not affiliated with Google in any way.

All they do is resell Google's adword service at an inflated cost. Want to advertise on Google? Sign up with Google directly so these parasites will go out of business.

All the positive comments on here are from the same telemarketers harassing you at home.

Spam---Scam---For Real---call it what you want. When they (Google reps) constantly call you from several numbers, including this one, I call it Harassment!

When and if I need any Google paid for advertising services I know how to accomplish that on my own.

Constant telemarketing from Google Reps turns me away from Google.

All SEO companies suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Teledouchbags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Why don't you call India and ask for your job back

If you don't want it, they'll immediately call back and harangue you about not listening to what they have to say and call you rude. It just happened to me. Bottom feeding losers.

I find this to quite funny reading all the remarks on here. You people who write these remarks have no clue who is calling you. It's Google.

I ask sales person some simple questions because she was offering my business free services. I asked the question, Are you going to try to sell me something later was. Her answer was .Boy you are so suspicious.

Tom, of course it is not *really* Google.  Fortune 500 companies hire telemarketing companies to place sales calls for them.  Heck, I have a company with only 4 people and we hire telemarketing companies to place calls for us.  And they are selling Google Adwords Express.  You cannot do this for free.  Yes, if you have a business you are on Google Maps for free, but this is advertising, not "showing up on Google maps"  I really can't understand all the crazy posters here saying what a scam this is..

This is 100% legit.  It is just sales people (yes, most likely an outsourced telemarketing group. Do people really think large companies staff their own telemarketing departments?) calling to sell Google adwords.  I got $100 free credit and never gave any credit card info or anything else.  The rep I talked to was actually very nice.  You may want to call her yourself- Nicole at extension 23887.

The company hired by google is called Direct Alliance corp...Go to google and type Google & Direct Alliance...You will get your answer there. They are a Sales Co.  3rd Party hired by google to sell the S**T out of Google. Obviously they cannot do it, so they hired this messed up company to sell with no customer service. Buyer beware, they will sell you Adwords & Express but do not expect CS...they suck...And shame on Google for hiring them and not giving Customer Service

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a company who wants to put you on google maps for money

you can do it for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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all of the legit replies here are likely sales people for the not legit company


THIS IS NOT GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Mark" called from this number; and promptly told me that I didn't know what I was talking about when I indicated to him that we are no longer located at the location he was referring to (that was set up in 2006 on Google Places), and don't really have time right now to discuss it with him.  The email he mentioned as ours hasn't been used in 4 years, either.  I suggested that he could call back at a more convenient time if he wanted to give me his sales pitch, and he promptly replied that he "wasn't going to set up a blank-ing appointment to talk to anybody, I needed to stop what I was doing and talk to him right now."  Wow.  You're cold-calling me, trying to sell me advertising (which we NEVER pay for), and you tell me I don't know what I'm talking about and you're not willing to call back at a more convenient time???  Um...I don't think so, pal.  Nice try...not gonna happen.

What are you doing out of the boiler room, telescammer? Better get back quick before your crack pipe gets cold!

Won'tBeScammed=Really Stupid.

Reader beware! Stupidity like this is contagious!

David,

What studies are you reading that have proven that telemarketing and cold calling do not work? If they do not work then how are so many fortune 500 companies funding call centers that are for telemarketing purposes? Please do not speak of things that you are not educated on. It is not attractive and it just makes you appear..well..uneducated! Telemarketing does not soil anything. It is apparent that you do not understand these aspects of a business cycle and probably work in a restaurant and you accidentally received a call from a company providing an important and very legitimate service. I am so sick of people claiming "It's a scam, it's a scam". No. You are just uninformed and have never heard of this service and when someone called to inform you of it you automatically think it is a scam because you are somehow an expert because you read a blog about a guy that got an email that was stupid enough to respond with his bank information. You have soiled your own name by being ignorant! David=Ignorant.

And the desperate scammers have found this site. Maybe they figured out how to google it LOL!

You Sir are wrong the Google Reps do call companies all the time if you where ever a company that has used Adwords and/ or Adwords Express then you have nothing to worry about. There may be several numbers that may show up on your caller ID box when the call is placed as I am sure that Google has more than one phone number.If someone calls and leaves a message all you have to do is call back to validate the caller. The F.T.C. states that you can not miss represent a product or company. If a call is placed and you don't trust the caller all you have to say is "take me off your call list" You should never get an argument from a legitimate company. You shouldn't say that a company is a scam by assumption unless you have proof or in fact have been scammed by the company. In all cases if you get a call from this number these are Marketing Rep's for Google CASE CLOSED.