You'd think that after 5 years on this job I'd have run across this one. But it was the first time I'd heard it. Usually the telemarketers are more blatant about selling, as in "May I speak to whoever is in charge of making decisions about your telephone service?".

This one's speech sounded so much like my own spiel for checking references that I didn't realize she was a telemarketer until she hung up on me.