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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:21 PM
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Channel 5 in ATL just did a great report on the sleazy operators
calling people over and over again on their cell phones trying to sell you warranty extension for your vehicles. I just caught the end of it, but the report was trashing the jerk running the operation!

Hopefully stuff like this will get appropriate attention and put these assholes out of business.

sP

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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:25 PM
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1. These assholes have called my office phone 2-3 times a week
for more than 3 years now... The past couple of months, my personal cell phone has started getting them as well. Virtually no one has this number. :mad:
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:27 PM
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5. They don't have the number
They just robodial until they get an answer.;
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:31 PM
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8. that was all but admitted to in the report
and the use of fake 'source' numbers is apparent and a gross violation of the FTC rules...

sP
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:26 PM
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2. I've gotten that plenty of times on my cell and home phone
Even though I don't own a car.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:27 PM
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6. one person played along...
and tried to get his Abrams tank warranty extended...THAT was a hoot!

sP
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:26 PM
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3. hmmm wish I had seen it--because I saw a commercial
that caught my attention about a warranty. Can't remember the company's name though.
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Jkid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:26 PM
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4. I got a call from them recently.
They offered me an warranty extension for a car that I don't even own. I don't even own a car. So I reseached the company and it's obvious by the google seach results that it was a fraud.

Why isn't the FTC on this?

Also, K&R.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:30 PM
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7. the FTC SHOULD be on it, big time...
they are violating the DoNotCall laws in a few ways. The report had a former 'agent' on and he admitted that when you 'press 2 to be taken off the list' that it does nothing...

sP
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 02:26 AM
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10. Sonovabitch
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:34 PM
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9. Somebody here did a OP identifying one of these companies.
I looked up the listed corporation at sunbiz.org and identified that teh corporate officer lived here in Orlando.

There used to be a boiler room doing calls down town Orlando on Colonial drive selling these "insurance" plans but something happened and it went away.

Doug D.
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