Scammer Aftermarket Auto Warranties 

"IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK" (idroveapickuptruck) 02/18/2015 at 18:03 • Filed to: None

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I'd say every two weeks I get a call from a company trying to sell me an extended warranty for my 2011 Silverado. Only one problem, I sold that car 18 months ago, when I try to tell me that they immediatly hang up on me. Just now they called me again, literally the words out of my mouth "Please don't hang up"
*CLICK*

Jesus, people if you would take the time to spend 2 minutes removing me from your call list then I wouldn't get annoying calls from you anymore and you wouldn't spend the time calling me anymore!

Mercedes Streeter > IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK 02/18/2015 at 18:12

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As someone who works in a lead generating call center: There are many upon many companies that do it, many run under the same "phone alias". So even if you get removed from the list from one company, you'll still get calls from others.

E92M3 > IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK 02/18/2015 at 18:20

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If they are calling your cell phone just put their number in the auto reject list.

Nibbles > E92M3 02/18/2015 at 18:24

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If they are calling your personal cell phone, and you did not explicitly give consent (written) for them to do so, report them to the FCC because that's expressly illegal since October 2013 and carries hefty repercussions.

Rico > Nibbles 02/18/2015 at 20:19

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Whoa seriously? I have some company that calls from phone from a series of 646-721-xxxx numbers, always either some machine talking in Spanish about winning a vacation or something else random. I'll post a screen shot from my phone in a sec

And when I tried to call the number back it would ring and hang up.

Nibbles > Rico 02/18/2015 at 20:24

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You can alert the FCC to the incident. If it is a traceable line to an actual company on US soil, yes heavy HEAVY fees can be leveraged. To the tune of up to $15,000 per incident , or per call that was placed. If it is an overseas company using a service like Five9 to spoof a US number well, you're kinda boned there, but I do know the FCC is gathering information on these scammers and sometimes attempting to have them shut down.

Boils down to this: After October 2013; any call placed by an autodialer (or appliance that could be used for the purpose of autodialing), "robocalling" (using an automated speaking service to convey a message or extract information) without announcing intent, or using a number-generator to call personal cell phones without express written consent is an illegal activity. Verbal consent doesn't matter anymore either, when it comes to personal cells.