Freakin' Car Warranty Phone Scammers!

[Amaris]

I've been getting these calls on my cellphone for months now. I was fed up so this time I pushed '1' to talk to a real person.
I calmly told him I had a 2009 Bugatti Veyron and a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
He didn't sound like he cared at all that I had a million dollar supercar . . . probably didn't really pay attention to what it was, just that being a 2009 meant it was too new and still supposedly had a warranty on it. The '67 however was apparently too old to get a phony warranty on

so he apparently took my number off the list. I highly doubt it.


these phone scams are illegal, and apparently they don't pay any attention to the do not call list, and even ring up cell numbers. I think it's called sequential dialing. They simply dial every valid number and weed out the out of service numbers and hope that they get enough suckers to buy their phony warranties
I think they were sued by the FCC once . . . but they're still doing it

next time I'm going to tell them my number is owned by the US government and that they've compromised the security of a highly important operation

I got a call 3 minutes ago!


J.

 

[Cap'n Caveman]

I still get calls that my warranty is about to expire, but my car is almost 11 year old (well out of warranty) and was totaled in an accident a few months ago. I wonder if I get a warranty will they still honor it...

My wife gets those calls, and she has never even had a driver's license, much less a car.

I did a reverse-lookup on the phone number that came up on the caller ID once, and when I google-mapped the address that came up, it was the parking lot of a Burger King or something.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

My mothers gets the car warrenty call all the time I get all kinds of 800s 866....ect but I never care to answer.

How about numbers that apear like this
000-000-0000
Fuckers!
I get them all the time from the states
Ohio, Washington DC, etc. I just ignore them and let the machime pick up.

 

[Amaris]

Fourth call today since I made the previous post. This time I connected on through and gave them a random make model and year. I didn't qualify and would be removed from the list. Aww.


J.

 

[backstept]

Fourth call today since I made the previous post. This time I connected on through and gave them a random make model and year. I didn't qualify and would be removed from the list. Aww.


J.

I did that . . . and they still called a few days later . . .

 

[Amaris]

Fourth call today since I made the previous post. This time I connected on through and gave them a random make model and year. I didn't qualify and would be removed from the list. Aww.


J.

I did that . . . and they still called a few days later . . .

Yep. They called this morning. I got the words "1970 Ford-" out and they hung up. They are apparently getting impatient.


J.

 

[CaptainHawk1]

I get them every now and then (more often I get the postcards in the mail). Just tell them to take you off the list. I get a Robocall that gives me the option by pressing a number and I usually don't hear from them for a long time.

 

[Starbreaker]

I actually got one of these to laugh one time when I started yelling at him at the top of my lungs.

 

[Trekker4747]

I get these calls and mails all of the time.

"[Trekker] the factory warranty on your car may have already expired!!!"

Um, yeah, it did 5 years ago. That's what happens when you have a 10-year-old car with 100K miles on it.

 

[Amaris]

I get them every now and then (more often I get the postcards in the mail). Just tell them to take you off the list. I get a Robocall that gives me the option by pressing a number and I usually don't hear from them for a long time.

I have told them. It worketh not for me.


J.

 

[AdAstra]

So, they are illegal, everybody gets them all the time, and nothing is done about them?

Why don't the authorities shut them down? Surely at one time a cop or someone "with power" must've gotten these calls too?

 

[nevermore]

I'm resurrecting this thread to post this ultra fun, informative and idea-filled Reddit thread.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I used to get these calls. They always called when I was in class, so they usually didn't get to me. I would always hang up when the automated crap started. One day on a road trip, they called my mom, and she ripped the live person a new one, gave them the phone numbers to everyone in the family, and said to put all of us on the do not call list or else there would be major hell to pay.

Two days later they called me. Rather than hanging up, I talked to the live person, who recieved a very sarcastic, very assholish commentary about a) calling about a car that's never had a warranty and b) calling me after being moved to the do not call list. Once the poor lass got me off her ear, they have yet to ever call me again. Arse-biscuits.

 

[CaptainStoner]

I get the car warranty calls, credit relief calls, home mortgage calls, and health insurance calls.

My car is a '93, I have no credit card debt, I don't own a home, and I already have health insurance.

I've noticed lately that some of them don't have the option to be removed from their list, not that it's effective anyway.

 

[freak]

I got one of these frakkin calls about 9:45 this morning on my cellphone! Why don't those bastards give it a rest! I know my warranty has expired but I don't really care!

 

[Guartho]

I have been fortunate enough not to receive any of these calls. But, thanks to you I feel better prepared. I think I'll claim to still own the care I drove in High School. It was a 1979 Postal Jeep with a 4-cylinder VW engine. My state's Postal Maintenance head guy told me that that year was the only year they had the imported Audi/VW engines! It also supposedly had a French transmission, but I was unable to confirm that other than by the fact that it barely functioned.