Annoying phone calls from auto warranty companies

[MoBeach]

Is anyone else receiving these calls? My cell # is on the do not call list and I still receive calls frequently. I used to get an option to press 2 to get removed from the list, but now I just get a press 1 to talk to a representative.

I'll press 1, and as soon as someone comes on asking for my vehicle make and year I'll say take me off your list then they hang up on me.

[Unrepresented]

It's a scam. I haven't gotten one in a while, but it used to annoy the crap out of me.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Unrepresented

It's a scam.

Yep. They had a story about this on the radio this morning.

[MoBeach]

Where do you suppose they get everyones numbers? are our cell companies selling our names and numbers?

[QuelOround]

Yeah I got one of those calls and I don't even have a car.

[Dan B]

I keep getting those calls on my cell and on my university phone.

It's usually "This is the 2nd notice about your car insurance blah blah blah..."

I just hang up.

Glad to know I am not the only one getting these calls.

[MoBeach]

Originally Posted by Dan B

I keep getting those calls on my cell and on my university phone.

It's usually "This is the 2nd notice about your car insurance blah blah blah..."

That's it...

[Chriss62]

Just start out like you're going to bite, then keep yelling SHARK! SHARK! SHARK!

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by MoBeach

Where do you suppose they get everyones numbers? are our cell companies selling our names and numbers?

Not likely. It's probably someone else who has harvested your cell phone number or email address somewhere along the way. Just today I have made two online purchases that required my cell phone number.

Never know who might sell your information.

[Kenbuntu]

You should Just play around with them.

Next time they call, here's what you do:
"Yeah, it's a 1986 Toyota Venza, Automatic, Fully loaded, Leather, and has logged around 7000miles over the years. The back bumper has managed to stay on the car via duck tape and bungee cords.

Now the last time i renewed my warranty i got a quote of $125 dollars but it came to $150 when everything was all said and done. Actually, I'm pretty sure it was your manager, Alfonzo, who gave that quote to me. I was a bit disappointed, but I realized it's for the sake of the car, so I took the bullet and forked over the extra cash. Fortunately, shortly after my baby was covered, the tranny blew (for the third tie) and you guys covered it.

What kind of quote will you give me this time around?"

That should do it.

This will either:
A. Confuse them, causing them to hang up.
B. Think they've got you, in which case you break it to them, that they are stupid amateurs and that you were just playing around with them.
C. Refer you to someone else, in which case you tell them to piss off, and take you off their list or else you'll file a complaint with the National Consumers Car Warranty Association of America.

[kserg]

I love telemarketers/scam calls because my coworker gets them at work and we seat there and laugh as he ****s with them.

Last lady got very angry with him, calling him names and almost being hysteric. She lost it in the end and all he was doing is asking about product and at the end hitting on her. In the end of the call he started to tell her that he "loooooves the ladies".


I really want to start recording these.

[GeneralElectric]

I haven't gotten any in awhile, but there was a point where I was getting 2-3 a day and I never give out my cell number for anything. I usually just leave it blank. Why do you need to call me, Mr. Random Business, when I won't answer anyways and email is better? No idea how they got mine.

For awhile I was telling them to take me off their lists, every time they called me, but its so many different numbers.

Yesterday I got one about some education program and I promptly hung up.

[EBodious]

easily 3 to 4 out of every 5 calls i get at home (we still have a land line) are telemarketers. often, the warranty folks.

if they didn't call, our phone wouldn't hardly ever ring.

i kind of look forward to their calls.


makes me feel popular.....

[Happynoj]

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[Lady Kayri]

I think they sometimes have the computer dialing numbers generated at random. I got one today on the motel mobile phone... I also love the ones saying they'll get your credit card rates lowered; neither my husband nor I even HAVE credit cards any more, just our debit cards!! Or the ones 'there's a problem with your account, we need this info to help clear up the problem..." - three times now just for me, and usually for accounts in banks we've never banked with. Last time I took down the # and told them the police would be in contact with them, as obviously, if there was an account there with my name on it, someone had scammed them. They hung up in a hurry.

[Nino Valenti]

I used to get those calls. https://www.donotcall.gov/

Added 3 lines and now I get no unsolicited calls.

[guitar ed]

It's easy to generate random phone numbers. I did it in college 25+ years ago. You just need to know the area code & pre-fix you want to call, and away you go.

If you really want to hurt, and I do mean HURT them physically, get an air horn like they use for boating emergencies. Put it up to the mouth piece & hit the horn. You can put somebody in the hospital that way. Burst their ear drum. stuff like that.

Of course, sexing them up can work. Particularly if they are straight laced and you have the opportunity to play "gay". Oddly enough, flexible business & financial morals, don't always translate into flexible sexual morals.

Put your kid on the phone. That will waste their time. On the other hand, they might cuss at your kid as well.

Try to convert them to your religion, what ever religion you can think of at that moment. After all, you don't want to do business with somebody who is ungodly, do you?

Last, you can lead them down the garden path. Ask lots of questions about the product, sound interested, then just hang up when you get bored with the game.

Later,

edg

[DanAleks]

This has been around for a while but, for the 3 people that haven't heard it, this is pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_PjRXV5l8

[tplyons]

Ask them what car it's for. If they don't know what car's warranty's expiring, they're full of it.

[Ericman197]

I don't think they ever know. But I told them my warrantee expired 30 years ago and that I don't have any other car, and they hung up on me. Apparently they only 'warranty' 95 and up. But they also are calling many states (if not all of them) where they are not licensed to provide warrantties, and I've heard that they won't even pay out (total scam).

Unfortunately, telling them not to call you will not help. As I understand it, they work by a sort of hive that puts out lists of phone numbers. Then people working at home call those numbers. Since these people don't communicate with each other, getting taken off one person's list may not help, hence why it seems like everyone in the country has received this call at least a few times.

I believe they are still making money because 1/1000 or so people WILL fall for just about any scam, and otherwise it is probably not a legitimate business that pays taxes and fines for what they are doing. So if it hasn't happened already, whoever is in charge will take a few million he made and flee the country.

I find it interesting that a telemarking ring could be so huge. If there hasn't been one already, someone needs to make an SNL skit about this.