WOW, I ran into this when trying to find a carpet cleaning company to refer my clients to! May not be the same scenario, but I will share my experience:
There was a post on my local FB group page showing carpet cleaning services. I messaged them, because I don’t do that, but clients would like a referral.
I was called from a call center in India, (I know, because they used the same number to spam call me before).
I could barely understand the person on the other line, and I am not unaccustomed to accents.
I told the person that my client had a 4 office, hallway and waiting room. I have no knowledge of the site. Who knows, it could be on the ground floor or the 10th???
He told me the cost would be $225.00
My reply was: “Ummm, I think you might want to go and make sure that you can honor that price. Take a look at the property and get back to me.”
“No sir, we can honor that rate, in fact we are in Etobicoke tomorrow or any day that you would like.”
At that point I thought that they were actually doing this:
Using facebook to farm interested clients, posing as a real company, and then selling the leads to legit companies.
I can’t confirm this, but I truly believe this is the case.