New York – People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers 623-238-6228 and 408-587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists trying to steal your personal information and identity. Other numbers generating these spam identity theft calls include 202-552-1332, 702-520-1105, 609-948-0971 and 562-289-8136.
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The calls always say roughly the same thing (often leaving automated voicemail), along the lines of:
“Your car warranty is expiring. We have notified you several times by mail.”
or
“Your car warranty has expired! Protect your loved ones with an extended warranty!”
Sometimes, instead of an expired warranty, they will also offer debt consolidation or refinance loans.
In any case, they are after your financial information, and your money.
These calls are illegal, probably under both the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Federal anti-spam law, CAN-SPAM.
You can report these calls to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) – and file a complaint with the FCC at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html.
But now Sen. Charles Schumer is asking for an investigation into those scam phone calls According to the Associated Press Schumer said that he received one of the calls on his cell phone last week. He is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the calls.
Alison Southwick of the Better Business Bureau says that her agency received more than 140,000 complaints about car warranty calls in 2008.
I am getting such calls daily on my home phone and cell phone, that are actually spoofing the caller ID, but I’m sure they can be traces, they are very annoying.
Its about time someone is doing something about this. I have received 15 calls for my car warrenty over the past year and I don’t even own a car.
I get these every couple of days, their extremely annoying
I keep getting calls telling me they can help with my past due mortgage payments – but I don’t have a mortgage!
Can anything be done about the annoying telemarketing calls from within the frum community? These calls are pre-recorded announcements, and they may be for a tsedakah, a fundraiser, or some big sale going on; sometimes the calls come one after another. There are no options given to be removed from these caller lists, yet I do not want to be receiving these phone calls.
…. well if it annoyed Schumer I guess it’s now a problem.
reply to 6 yes! there is a option to be removed from their list call back the phone # on the caller ID & you will hear
I’ll any time accept frum telemarketing than goyisher scams
I’m getting these calls allmost daily and I don’t even have a car
Concerning phone calls from tsedakah organizations – if I can help out, I am happy to do so. The phone calls referred to in #6 are recordings. They are not calls from well-known organizations. If you want to donate, you “press 2”. The caller id reads “out of area”, or if there is a number, dialing it will bring you the recorded announcement again. Sometimes the announcements are entirely in yiddish; others are concerning bargains and “incredible savings”. You do not speak with a person, nor are you able to contact them (unless one goes to the event, I suppose 🙂 ) Although these phone calls can come any time during the week, they are usually in the late evenings and frequently on motzei shabbos. There may be just one phone call, or there may be several in one evening.
I get calls about my car warranty and my car is 18 years old! I am on the do not call list, why are these scammers able to call me?
I too get these calls about the warranty almost every day, sometimes twice a day. They give you an option to press 2 and “your offer will expire”. However, pressing 2 never works-they still keep on calling. Very annoying.
The jewish calls are also very annoying. They too don’t stop. On a positive note-at least they are not looking to scam you.