I just got a call on my Google Voice phone number from a woman who claimed to be from Google and who started to make what sounded an awful lot like a sales pitch. I told her I wasn’t interested and hung up.

That’s bad enough, but she immediately called back and left a pushy message saying she needed to talk to me about my business listing with Google and she wasn’t soliciting anything.

According to numerous web postings, sales people using the same number have been calling people and offering “enhanced” listings for money.

See the slightly sketchy Google Voice transcription of her message above.

Are you kidding me? Does Google think I’m actually going to deal with a dishonest junk caller?

Just because.

photo: Ground squirrel in the Wallowas, 2007