I just got a phone call at work that sounded like it was from overseas. The caller was "confirming" our company’s "free yellow pages business listing." He already knew our company name and contact info and I said "correct" as he read it back.

Then the call got weird. He got me to spell out my name and then asked for my job title. When I answered, he said that title wasn’t in their system and I should just say I was a "supervisor" when he transfered me to someone who was going to confirm our listing.

A second guy came on and said his call was being timed, so to please not interrupt him because he had to complete it in so many seconds. Then he said to interrupt him if the info was wrong. He repeated this mumbo-jumbo several times.

When this caller asked me my job title, I gave my original answer. He said, "A supervisor?" When I answered, "Not really," he hung up.

Has this happened to anyone else? I’m afraid I said "yes" at one point and they’ll be able to scam me.
They already knew our company information, so the only thing I really gave them was my own name.

I’m not sure what it means that they hung up on me.

I’m somewhat new to networking, and what I need to build one for a class assignment (so no really in depth answers needed). I have to design a network for a business of my choosing. I was thinking a logistics company.

They would have a main office and then another random branch. The company would consist of 30 PC’s in the main office and 10 in the branch which is in another city. There would be a program everyone could access to pull up customer information, truck company information, and from here edit it. It would have internal email systems in place, and a website. If possible the company would be using VOIP for the phone system (optional), but don’t want to make things over difficult.

How would I go about setting this up? What type of server(s) am I looking at using? What type of routers and switches would I need? What type of software would I use that would be critical to the IT infrastructure? Am I backing data up on Tapes (really new to this concept)? If I missed anything feel free to add on.

Think I will just use a version of Windows for the PC’s OS, and would like to make things easy and just using a Windows Server program also. Like I said just need a general run down, I can BS the paper, but would like to know the fundamentals I would actually need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated