The St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce is warning its members not to give out information over the phone to a caller claiming to be doing business for the Chamber.

In an email sent out Friday afternoon the Chamber said, “Some Chamber members have notified us that they’ve been contacted by telephone by a person asking multiple questions about their business. When asked the purpose of the call, the caller has said that they are updating their Chamber information.”

“The Chamber received a call last week and then one this week from some members saying that they had received a call that was a little suspicious,” Kristi Bailey, Chamber Spokeswoman said. “Asking a lot of questions about their business and when the person asked who’s asking the person that was calling said they were calling on behalf of the Chamber wanting to update their information.”

However, Bailey said the Chamber has not authorized any outside company to do this.

“As far as we know they weren’t asking for any financial information.  One was asking about office management.  Not really sure what profitable information they were seeking,” Bailey said. “I think it’s probably better just not to share anything because they were obviously misrepresenting themselves.”

Bailey urges anyone contacted by the caller to simply hang up and not give out any information.

The Chamber adds that if it conducts a survey like this in the future staff will notify members via mail or email beforehand.