"Extended Car Warranty" scam shut down

[peeplj]

The FTC has halted the operations of a business that was spamming basically every phone number in the United States, including Secret Service lines and 911 operators, offering "extended car warranties."

I had personally gotten as many as three of these a day. Sometimes the calling number would be blocked, other times it would be a different number each time.

The FTC has received over 30,000 complaints.

The phone operators were instructed to never give the actual name of the company to anyone on the phone, at the risk of being fired. Also, they were to give customers fake telephone numbers so that they could not call back.

I am SO glad this was shut down!!!

Here's more info if you want it.

--James

P.S. I don't consider this controversial, just a cause for celebration. If any of the mods consider it controversial, just pop it. --JP

[izzarina]

Thank goodness! I was getting SO tired of those calls...on my main line, and on my cell. It really was very annoying. Thanks for this, James!

[emmline]

Yep. At least a couple times a week.

[fearfaoin]

I just heard about this scam on the TWiT podcast,
because I've never received a single one of those
calls. I wonder why? I feel so unloved. I did get
several extended warranty mailings, though.

Surely they weren't respecting the Do Not Call List?

Maybe next they can stop all those postcards from
"lawyers" offering me settlements for the Masonite
siding that is not even on my house.

[WyoBadger]

YAAAAAAAAY! The slime weasels are out of business. Nothing controversial about this, Jim--do you know anybody who LIKES these guys?

I am proud to say that I was two of those 30,000 complaints. I have never filed a complaint before--about anything--but these calls were so annoying, so constant, and so blatantly untruthful that they got me irritated.

Tom

[Caj]

P.S. I don't consider this controversial, just a cause for celebration. If any of the mods consider it controversial, just pop it. --JP

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[Thomaston]

Thank God. Being a night shift worker, I was woken several times by this when my cell phone was called.

[rebl_rn]

I just heard about this scam on the TWiT podcast,
because I've never received a single one of those
calls. I wonder why? I feel so unloved. I did get
several extended warranty mailings, though.

We'll have to start a support group or something, because I never got one of these calls either. Though I rarely, if ever, answer my landline if I don't know the person calling (thank God for caller ID), so I may have had them calling and not know it. I do answer my cell phone, usually, because it may be a work related call. I definitely never got a call on my cell.

[cowtime]

I just heard about this scam on the TWiT podcast,
because I've never received a single one of those
calls. I wonder why? I feel so unloved. I did get
several extended warranty mailings, though.

We'll have to start a support group or something, because I never got one of these calls either. Though I rarely, if ever, answer my landline if I don't know the person calling (thank God for caller ID), so I may have had them calling and not know it. I do answer my cell phone, usually, because it may be a work related call. I definitely never got a call on my cell.

I'll join, because I never got the calls either. Hmmmm, might be the combination of the "do not call" list and an unlisted number...

[Denny]

I just heard about this scam on the TWiT podcast,
because I've never received a single one of those
calls. I wonder why? I feel so unloved. I did get
several extended warranty mailings, though.

We'll have to start a support group or something, because I never got one of these calls either. Though I rarely, if ever, answer my landline if I don't know the person calling (thank God for caller ID), so I may have had them calling and not know it. I do answer my cell phone, usually, because it may be a work related call. I definitely never got a call on my cell.

I'll join, because I never got the calls either. Hmmmm, might be the combination of the "do not call" list and an unlisted number...

Me too, "do not call" & non published number

[izzarina]

I got enough of them between Mr Izz and I for us and all of you. If they start coming again, I'll be sure to share

[missy]

I got enough of them between Mr Izz and I for us and all of you. If they start coming again, I'll be sure to share

yeah - I was about to ask for phone numbers to forward MY calls to! One night we got 6 of them.

[I.D.10-t]

The system was pathetically slow to stop those people. To celebrate is to accept incompetence.

[Denny]

improvement should be celebrated