Anyone else get this irritating automated (scam) call on a regular basis?

Anyway, it's making me CRAZY.

::raising hand::

Almost daily for a few months.  Hasn't happened since end of 2008.

Yup.
My business line (like most public business lines) is in circulation of some of the worst automatons around.

I get it probably 4 times a week.

Also, I'm pretty sure what they are doing is completely illegal.

Ya, Whats is up with that my buddy keep getting call too.
Someone needs money..

YES, I get this at least once a week.

Even my Daughter and her friends get this one. It's kind of funny when a nine year old gets the message because they're always unsure about what they're supposed to do.

It comes from different numbers, so it's impossible to block them, too.

We need to figure out who is behind this so that I can call Tseven on your Tside.  I'm fucking over it.

killing spree?! see the rachel ray thread.

google for it. my friend got this call today and apparently there's an investigation around these calls and they're trying to stop them.

By the way, even if you are on the do not call list, they will still call you.

Yeah, I've gotten it too, and the first time I was like wtf I haven't had a car in 3 years.  So I called them back to ask them about it and the guy said, "huh, no insurance..thats strange...did you catch the part in the message where this phone call is 9 dollars a minute?, you should probably hang up if you don't want to be charged."

I think I've also gotten mail and postcards from a similar scam.

I get a repeated scam that my fictitious business name is about to expire and to send them $150. Fuckers.

Yes, I get a call at least once per day at my office phone.

yep all the time..home and work

hell yeah.  They keep calling my business.   These people should be taken outside and __________!

I get them on my cell phone at least once a week... and i haven't owned a car since '94 :|

These bastards love to prey on the elderly.  Oughta be able to trace the call back and send a BitchSlap-O-Gram.

Nooo - the warranty on my 17 year old car is about to expire - they don't just make cars to last like they did in the Model T days.

Yes. It's annoying.

I get it all the time, and I've never owned a car in my life.

Get this- I once heard it come over the Caltrain loudspeakers at the Hayward Park station. Hand to god. It was weird.

I've also gotten this call in Spanish.

Describing bowel movements to telemarketers keeps the calls short

I once let them put me through to a real person.  She asked me what the make and model of my car was.  I told her that if she knew something as intimate about me as the expiration date to the factory warranty to my car, she should at the very least know what factory built the car.  Then we got into this big back and forth chicken and the egg circular logic thing and she got frustrated and so did I and I hung up.  

They called me back two days later.

Wow, I thought I was the only one. As I DO have a waranty on my car, but only have a cell #, I thought it odd, and didn't take it seriously. Now, to find out that it is a scam. I'm pissed!

I get this regularly.  It always pisses me off.  Turns out I have equity in my home too.  Didn't even know I owned one.

Okay, I JUST GOT THE CALL RIGHT NOW!

One of you assholes is fucking with me, right?

Sheila "I ain't scurred of you muddafukahs!!" G. says:

These bastards love to prey on the elderly.  Oughta be able to trace the call back and send a BitchSlap-O-Gram.
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Amen.  As the caretaker of my elderly mother every ad, mailing or telephone call that is under the guise of an "account someone may have" is dangerous.  There was one she received by post in the form of a post it note - looked very real - that she almost ended up sending money to.  

There was even an ad from a television series on a cable network that took on the look of an "update from a family member with info on the next family reunion".  Since the character shared the same last name as our family (thus, how they chose the recipients of the mailed ads) my mother kept it thinking this was from a family member... even though the character was Caucasian.  If this was a request for money or funds of some sort a check would have been written immediately.

I hate scams like these because they end up taking the elderly for thousands of dollars if family isn't around to intercept.

Exactly, KayJay.  I hate any sales calls, but this one is the worst I've seen because it's such a total scam.  I would love to see an army of angry Yelpers unite and make these fuckers go to jail.

As long as you didn't have some prior relationship with the company, they're supposed to have to pay for violating the DNC List and calling you after you've requested they not. Anyone know anything about this?

I heard the fine is $2000, but I also heard that there is a loophole that makes you have to notify the company in writing that they have violated DNC.  You can't do that if you don't know who's calling you.

When they called just now, the caller ID said "Unknown Caller".

You can file a complaint here: donotcall.gov/complaint/…

However, these scammers use spoofed fake telephone numbers.

Looks like someone tracked them down- cameo.livejournal.com/27…

Lauren, I don't think it's just this company. I bet there are multiple companies all around the country running these scams.

msnbc.msn.com/id/23147777
warrantyweek.com/archive…
Looks like there are hundreds of companies doing this independently of each other.

Yeah, I just realized that the wording on this one is slightly different. It's lame that I have their spiel emblazoned in my brain.

These bitches have been calling me every other day for months. I got a fucking call at 11pm on a weeknight goddamn it. I'm getting old, let me get my sleep.

unfortunately i did not act fast enough

I just got a new number and the first call that I got was from those peeps

I got one of those calls on my work line, and I hung up

(Its my policy to hang up on any recording asking me to hold the line for an operator...bitch you called me! How you gon aske me to hold?!  Or press 1 for this, or 2 for that...if it was important someone would be on there)

then it called back...the next day probably/.and then again a couple days later... and at that point I was hella annoyed so I said I'm gonna press 1 to speak to someone...I said how do you know my warranty is gonna expire if you don't know who you're calling? Then he said well do you have a car? So I think they are selling warranties. I said this is a jail facility please remove this number...he mumbled something and hung up... it called a couple days later...but hasn't since...

Been a couple months

Tsada - I just don't know what else to say when I call you.  I get so nervous.

been getting that a lot...last time was a week ago.

OMG! yes! I thought it was just me b/c my warranty IS expiring. Those jacka$$es!

yes on my oakland cell phone AND my virginia home phone.  the bastards.

i used to get those calls at work all the time and one time it called my history classroom phone during lecture (the prof answered it)

i got the called and went thru the entire automated process to get to this guy who got hella pissed off when i chewed him out and told him to take my number off the list.  he got angry saying they have nothing to do with the calls and he hung up.  

i haven't gotten another call since, but i know my co-workers are getting on their circulation list. annoying as hell.

only republicans own cars

I get those calls AND the stupid carpet cleaning service calls. I get too angry to wait for the end of the message to hassle them back.

I have gotten that call too, screams scam  I just want to know how they got my number?

God I thought it was just me, and I don't even own a friggin car! I've gotten this from two different numbers, and finally got a new phone that allows me to have a reject list.  Last week, I got a call every day.  Absolutely annoying.

Oh my god yes - I hate those fu@&ers. Every time I start asking questions about their company they hang up on me - could you imagine working for a place that you know is a complete scam?

i get it too.........irritating!!!!!!!!!!

Holy shit yeah! At least 3 times a week. On a phone I never pick up (land line). Tools.

Hmm... I kinda figured the last person with my direct dial line at the office gave the number to their car company, but if it's just telemarketing I'm going put to it on the do-not-call list. Thanks for sharing your frustration :D

The ones I'm getting is from sallie mae, looking for 2 people I don't even know. I get the calls at least twice a day.

Hello  T-s-a-d-a -K .  I'm calling on behalf of Scacowski Medical Underwriters. We would like to gently remind you the warranty on your koocheenatronator  is about to expire.

I get these like once a week for the past year and a half.  I actually got this same call from THREE different numbers on MLK day in succession.  It was so weird.

I also get a lot of calls from Mexican telemarketers.  I have no idea how they got my number, but they wouldn't stop calling and they don't understand me when I say that I want to get off their calling list.

like every week...

Ok...here's the thing.

You are a total IGNORAMOUS if you think requesting to be taken off their calling list is an option.

I have stayed on the line to ball out the caller and in once instance after
using ever foul word in my vocabulary, the caller stopped laughing and told
me that the company changes phone numbers ever few days so it just doesn't
do any good to request to be taken off a list.   They call random numbers so
quit the shock as to how they got your number.   Jeez...   Come on.  Do you really think they care?

Sometimes, when I'm in a snarky mood, I stay on the line to talk to a real person.

I tell them that I have a 1972 VW Bug and then act outraged when they don't
have an extended warrantee for me.

Or...

I stay on the line and tell them that I'm only three years old and I don't know where my mommy is...

Or....

I act like I don't speak English as a native language and drive them up the wall with my questions.

Or....

I start to act like I'm freaked out that there is something wrong with my car and how do they know?  
Did they do something to my car?   What the hell did you do to my car?!

Or...

I just start swearing like a sailor right off the bat and they hang up on me.

This scam won't stop anytime soon so if I'm in the mood....I just waste their time and maybe
prevent them from calling you.

You're welcome!

Second notice?  More like the fucking one hundred and twenty-second notice....STOP CALLING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

....fuckers.

...

K-leen, do you need your carpet cleaned? I could forward those calls to you too...

7 hours ago Debbie "Quintessential International Party Girl" L. says:
I also get a lot of calls from Mexican telemarketers.  I have no idea how they got my number, but they wouldn't stop calling and they don't understand me when I say that I want to get off their calling list.

"Hello?"
"Bueno.  Mi nombre es Sammy Sosa.  Soy un jugador de beisbol famosa"
"Ummm, no Nintendo?  I don't speak Spanish"
"¿Quiere a ir conmigo a un festivo?  Podemos ir con el Presidente de Cuba."
"No, I don't want to buy any Fords, ESPECIALLY a Festivo.  Take me off your list."
"¿Donde?"
"I said TAKE ME OFF THE LIST"
"¿Que, que?"
CLICK

I don't even have my license and I ride a bike/ Muni everywhere and I get these stupid phone calls....

^

Be.Very.Careful.

Yeah I thought it was just out family.  We do have a real warranty on our car which doesn't expire till next year.
When I wait to talk to a real person it'll ring for at least ten times, someone will pick up and then hang up.

Why are they doing this other than to bug people?

We are on the DNC list too.

ugh. we get them all the time at work. and i just got a new blackberry for work and a new number - and i now get them on my blackberry. and even i don't know that phone number. it's so fucking annoying.

somebody should come up with a way to make them stop. i'd pay $10 to get them to not call again. i''m sure a lot of people would. sounds like a good job for the mafia.

looks like a new troll popped up. i guess this could be a fun day. though this troll seems more of the crash and burn variety. any bets on how long before its profile is deleted?

DUDE...I get these fucking calls NON-STOP! And the weird thing is, we even get these automated calls at my work now.

Suge, I'm already on it.

Yeah, it was shocking, I thought the warranty on my '84 Chevy Cavalier expired years ago!

I'm thinking the best thing is to go on and ignore someone in need of attention and be sure to stick to the discussions at hand.

seriously... somebody on here HAS to know how to make this stop...

K-leen F. says:

You are a total IGNORAMOUS if you think requesting to be taken off their calling list is an option.

...Do you really think they care?
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I don't think they care. I think that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the 2003 amendments to it make it illegal for true telemarketers to call numbers I put on the the national Do-Not-Call list. Also, the FCC rules prohibit the use of autodialers in many situations. You can report violations to the FCC here: esupport.fcc.gov/complai… or by emailing fccinfo@fcc.gov

I can dig that, Kristina.

The woman I spoke with on the other end of that recording
said that once you request to be taken off their list, you'll get
a call from another incarnation of the same annoying people.

It's like Whack-A-Mole!

gwynnie p. says:

K-leen, do you need your carpet cleaned? I could forward those calls to you too...

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I don't fool around with that shit, gwynnie.

That's a straight up hang up!

my boy likes to fuck with telemarketers.

if it's a girl, he'll put on a super deep voice and say shit like 'oh yeah, what are you wearing? you sound hot.'

or

'this had better be important because i was just in the  middle of jerking off'

i doubt that would work with these people though

Once you're on the list, no telemarketers other than those who the exceptions applies to can call you. It doesn't require getting on a company-specific list. Also, I don't think telemarketers are a solid source of info on... anything.

The Federal Trade Commission is supposed to be able to crack down on blatant fraud schemes such as this.. ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consum… .. I know that during the Clinton years.. the FTC came down hard on scams targeting seniors.. But for the last 8 years mebe the lackeys in charge have been asleep at the switch.. Hey!  Who is Obama putting on the FTC?

I've heard it and it's really damned annoying!

I've received these calls a couple of times.  The woman's voice is harsh and insistent and annoying.  The first time I listened for maybe 20 seconds.  Now I hang up as soon as I hear her.  I never stay on long enough to torment a real person as K-leen F and Suge's guy do.  That *almost* sounds tempting enough to put up w/ the call.    

I share KayJay's concern about the elderly being swindled.  Until my mom moved into a senior facility where she had no phone I was worried that these kinds of telemarketers and other crooks would have access to her.  About 10 years ago there was an appliance repair guy in Walnut Creek she contact through his huge Yellow Page ad.  He was going to charge her hundreds of dollars to fix her dishwasher until I intervened and put her in touch w/ someone honest who did the job for less than $100.

aaahhhh... me too....
its been going on for a long time.
super annoying.

ugh...i'm so fed up with these calls...

Yes

I get it on both of my cells, different carriers, about once every 6 weeks weeks.  Sometimes its a text, which costs me $$$, as I don't text

Yeppers. I'm getting it and I don't even own a car, lol.

Me too! I was wondering what the deal was - since I sold my  truck a year and changed my number since.

I thought they were following me, sounds paranoid. LOL

I got an awesome telemarketing call in Spanish last night. I laughed and hung up. That was a first but I surely do not expect it to be the last.

I've gotten the male and female versions, on personal and work cells. I recognize them and end the call immediately.

youve reached st jackson at the taraval police station. we are on a do not call list. can i speak to  your supervisor?

Getting one of them live and saying "I am naked can we have phone sex" has not yet hit the mark. I bet one of them will bite before year's end.  Also tried this with the "Please note your Credit card interest rate could be lower" another dandy.

A couple times a week.

i tell telemarketers that call despite my requests to be taken off the list they have to hold on because their mom is finishing up blowing me and i set the phone down.

I hate that automated message because you can't do anything about it.

Too bad we don't have a button on the phone that sends it to a spam box.

Hubert C. says:

Since I got rid of my land line, I haven't had a single telemarketing call in years. But I used to fuck with them when they called:

knob: "Hi, would you like to switch to our new AT&T plan?"
me: "Sound great but I don't have a phone."
knob: "Uh...........what?"
me: "I don't have a phone."
knob: "Then how are we talking."
me: "Telepathy."

Lots of fun.
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Hubert, that is so funny!  I sat here chortling.

I get that call about 700 times a day at work.

I am totally going to re-enact Hubert's convo tomorrow when they call.

I finally got to a human and asked them to take me off their list. Worked for a couple of months but i'm back on again. :(

I just bought myself a new car two weeks ago and I still get that message! Its so annoyinnnng.

although when they called me last year, it did remind me that the warranty on my jetta was expiring so i took it in for service before i sold it.

TODAY:

Scamming Douchebag:  Please give me your five-digit zip code.

Me:  No.  JUST. STOP. CALLING. ME.

Scamming Douchebag:  Shut up.

*click*

This is what I did...I stayed on the line and waited for the actual person to come on to tell me about my "factory warrenty" and then told them to stop calling...and they did!

I've never gotten such a call, but that's probably because I never pick up my phone.

i got messages on my cell phone and my work cell it comes about once a month

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!  fuckthem shit fuck fuckshit fuck i hate that shit fuccccccccccccccck!!!

You can put your number on a do not call list. They won't call for you. I did that and never get calls from them.

Instead I get collections calling for the person who previously had my phone #. I told'em that person doesn't have this # anymore and if they don't believe me then take him to court. They stopped calling almost all together. I still get random calls on rare occasions like one every couple of months.

OMG! I get these calls at work all the time. Funny thing is I dont even own a car anymore!!!!!

Second notice? What kind of rickety ass sales pitch is that ? I have been getting final notices for the last 3 years.