Companies, if you spoof your phone number, we will not do business. I am dead serious about 
that. A few weeks ago, a company called to see if we could link up and do business. The number came in as a local exchange. I asked the caller where his office was located and he said he was in another city in another state. I asked why he had a local exchange.
He proceeded to tell me is was cheaper for his company to blah, blah, blah. I wasn't buying it. He said he could hang up and call me back from a company number in Texas. I declined. I did tell him that when you start the call with a lie, that tells me right up front that I can't trust you.
I excused myself and ended the call. It seemed to me that should have been the end of the conversation. Ironically, he called back this week to see how I liked the webinar. What webinar? He said I signed up for a webinar that day, which I did not. Again, I told him that I didn't, and he pushed it just shy of calling me a liar.
He also said that a colleague had been trying to get in touch with me through voice-mail and email. There was zero evidence that had happened. This is a major well-known company in this country. Why do they have to lie to get business? I've used them for years with no real complaints, but all of a sudden, every call is clothed in deceit. But, for me, the spoof numbers are the final straw. Call me with a spoofed number and you are dead in the water.
