In our company they called a few times to chat with the manager and then edited the conversation to make it sound like he agreed to order the toner. They called back a month later to ask why the invoice hadn't been paid and then played the recording back to him. Once it was sent to our lawyer they stopped calling us though.
I have had the same variation with safety systems. They called me when I was first given the safety coordinator position to talk about their safety program and their pre-planned safety meeting system. As soon as they found out I was new they told me that they had sent their system to my predecessor who tried it out and had ordered more. Apparently they were now calling to follow up with us on how we liked it and again wanted money for the system. I ignored him, but they still called back every month or so to ask for money for a system that we would never buy.
A third version is companies that sound like the yellow pages who try to sign you up for crappy advertising and then send bills.
They are all scum but they get away with it and some people pay to make them go away.
I have heard that it is a cross border scam as well so it is rarely punished.
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