Auto Warranty Scam Phone Calls!?

chilliwilli · #1 04-02-2009, 12:39 AM

For months i was returning home from business trips or from work and finding messages on my home-business landline, about an expiring auto warranty. Funny thing is my warranty is good for another couple years! Then i started receiving the same calls at my office...now i'm getting these f*cking calls on my cell phone! It's an automated voice that says something about "acting now before my warranty expires". A friend in Atlanta mentioned that he got so fed up that he waited to get someone on the phone and cursed them out to stop harassing him...the calls stopped but resumed several weeks later.

The last straw was a few days ago. After returning home from a 5 hour red-eye flight...mind you i hadn't slept for nearly 20 hours before my flight (caught a little snooze mid-air)...I get home early morning, take a couple shots of cognac, kiss the CEO good-bye as she heads out to work, then i do a swan-dive onto the bed for a well anticipated comatose session. Just as i'm falling into a deep sleep, the phone rings and GUESS WHO!? I fall back asleep for maybe another hour and ANOTHER CALL!!! I unplugged every phone i could find and stuffed my ears with plugs!

I have friends from Atlanta to Los Angeles who are getting these calls. Are any of you getting these annoying calls!?

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evolver · #2 04-02-2009, 12:55 AM

Unfortunately, yes. And it annoys me a lot.

Quicksilver · #3 04-02-2009, 12:56 AM

Most Everyone is getting them and it appears there's
not much you can do about it. The FTC is powerless
because the companies just move and start with the dialing
service somewhere else.

The only thing we do is not answer. Or if enough of us get
together we could have some fun. Answer and Tell them that
your number will change because your moveing,
Then give this number. Federal Trade Commission (202) 326-2222

rh71 · #4 04-02-2009, 01:03 AM

Yup one time I googled their number from my callerID (just says Florida and their number) and found a lot of people complaining about this as well. I actually got one of these calls from my cellphone once.

I've heard that if you actually hit 1 to get more details, someone will get on the line, but if you ask anything like "what company are you with", they will not respond. I don't know how this is really getting them any business... I mean, why would someone sign up with a company they refuse to name?

clubba · #5 04-02-2009, 01:06 AM

My co-workers and I used to get them. We usually just hung up when we heard the automated voice, but I listened until the end once and it said to push '2' to be removed from future calls. I did and while my co-workers continued to receive calls, I didn't.

Maybe I was just lucky and maybe they're all different, but that worked for me.

evolver · #6 04-02-2009, 01:13 AM

I really wish modern handsets (both, mobile and wired) had configurable rules for incoming calls. I would set it up to send all callers with no CID to voice mail without even ringing. Numbers that are not in my address book would go to voice mail too. Numbers from address book would have custom actions depending on who is calling. I would also make voice mail "smart", something similar to "captchas" you see on forums.

chilliwilli · #7 04-02-2009, 01:19 AM

I read somewhere that sometimes the numbers that show up on caller ID's are not their actual # but a spoofed number that belongs to another victim. These people are relentless...I think once people catch on to them they dissolve and re-appear elsewhere.

PersonaNonGrata · #8 04-02-2009, 03:27 AM

I too get these annoying spam phone calls. Luckily it has been limited to my work cell phone and not home or my personal cell phone. I hope that at some point it becomes such a widespread problem that the feds get involved. Of course if that happens there is a chance that these auto warranty scammers will get bailout money and be the official warranty of the new White House auto warranty plan.

Dannyell · #9 04-02-2009, 03:54 AM

Yep I get them also...about twice a day...if i don't answer they leave a voice mail...quite annoying but ohh well hopefully at some point they'll stop...

brian5 · #10 04-02-2009, 07:51 AM

I get them normally twice a day on both my phones.

They're the only spam calls that I get on my second line so they must have access to a "super list" or they try EVERY possible number... They should be shot.

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