<p>Yeah I finally listened to the entire call today and got to the point where they say to press 2 in order to “close your file”. As I said before I also registered my cell number with the do not call list. Hopefully, those two things will do the trick…</p>
<p>We don’t get the calls but get a lot of mail about H’s truck warranty running out.</p>
<p>churchmusicmom: Don’t count on having the calls stop. I’ve been getting the “car warranty” calls daily for ages on my land line, sometimes twice a day on weekdays. Nothing works to stop them. Finally I just changed my answering machine to answer after 2 rings, and I don’t pick up the phone anymore. If someone wants to talk, they can leave a message or call my cell phone. Just about everyone I talk to calls me on my cell anyway.</p>
<p>My blood pressure has dropped considerably since I stopped answering the land line. Added benefits are that I don’t get calls from the credit card companies or from the charitable organizations that I have to kindly say “no” to. I do my charitable giving once yearly in response to mail solicitations, not phone calls.</p>
<p>Thanks, bunsenburner, for the FCC Consumer Complaints link. I will check that out, too.</p>
<p>Wow, thought it was just me, as a car warranty did expire in the last few months. Yes, the call comes multiple times per week. And, lucky me, I get the ‘different rate on your credit card’ call as well. Need to re subscribe to the do not call list.</p>
<p>Ahh… The Good Old Days… when I had my first phone (with a published number), which I never hesitated to answer because the calls I received were almost always legitimate. Today, most of the calls I receive are illegitimate; they are calls from telemarketers. For years, I have had to barricade my phone (with its bell turned off) behind an unpublished number, Caller ID, and an answering machine with a self-recorded announcement as warm and fuzzy as razor wire. </p>
<p>I’ve been getting these “car warranty” calls about once or twice a week for the past year or so. (My first and only car–bought used twenty-one years ago–is twenty-nine years old!) My Caller ID always displays the call source as either “Out of Area” or as “Private Call.” However, after reading this thread, I did some Internet digging, and I learned that many of these “car warranty” calls originate from the following call sources: 281-520-3761, 508-534-1291, 562-289-8136 (the most frequently reported call source), 614-453-6303, 631-840-1026, and 702-520-1251. The Long Beach, California-based landline telephone service provider for 562-289-8136 is Digitcom Services, Inc., 12923 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90066-3509, Phone (310) 358-7000 and (800) 464-5446, and Fax (310) 437-4105.</p>
<p>The following Internet websites provide useful information about telemarketer (whether live message, automated message, or hang-up) calls:</p>
<p><callercomplaints.com>
<callerwhois.com>
<everycall.us>
<number-lookup.com>
<phoneowner.info>
<phonespamfilter.com>
<whocalled.us>
<whocallsme.com>
<whocallsyou.com>
<whyrucalling.com>
<800.notes.com></whyrucalling.com></whocallsyou.com></whocallsme.com></whocalled.us></phonespamfilter.com></phoneowner.info></number-lookup.com></everycall.us></callerwhois.com></callercomplaints.com></p>
<p>I use these websites regularly. They operate similarly: Simply type in the offending phone number, hit “Search” or “Enter,” and then read the reports of those who have received unwanted calls from the same problem number. You can add to reports about existing problem numbers, and you can also be the first to report new problem numbers.</p>
<p>I’ve been at war with telemarketers for years; I think they should all be boiled in oil.</p>
<p>I have never gotten the warranty call on my cell, but I get them all the time on my land line as well as by mail. It’s a scam.</p>
<p>"Hello. We’ve been trying to reach you about an urgent … Yep, I can hear that woman’s anguished voice right now. I got the “car warranty” phone call about once a week for several months. I hates it!</p>
<p>Being bothered by these calls daily both at home and on my cell.</p>
<p>Made an FCC complaint with no luck.</p>
<p>The only thing that seems to have helped is to use call blocking at home, but I can’t do that on my cell? (i.e. I get a call, then immediately dial the cell block code to block that number.)</p>
<p>Can’t believe the feds are allowing this to continue. Maybe another example of GWB’s deregulation that will change with the new administration?</p>
<p>I get it on my home phone about twice a week and we are on a no call list.</p>
<p>Same here. In our case it’s a man’s voice.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten the call about the car warranty on my cell & the one about the credit card on my landline…my landline is on the Do Not Call llist, so that doesn’t seem to matter.
I just ignore the calls, but it is getting annoying.</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve received that call too. I just hang up.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten the calls on my landline for the car warranty and for the credit cards, and I’ve pressed 1 to see what’s up. They immediately start with “what’s the make, model and year?” which tells me right away that they’re pfishing. I’ve told them to take me off their list immediately.</p>
<p>And Yes, I’m on a do not call list – which, except for this, has been wonderful. The only calls we get are from colleges we have an affiliation with, or from magazines we subscribe to (trying to e x t e n d our subscription to infinity and beyond).</p>
<p>We’ve had this on our home answering machine about once a week for the last 3 months. I just delete but have muttered rude words about the mechanic selling our name - guess I was wrong about that.
And yes, that phone is on a do-not-call list.</p>
<p>I get the exact same one on my cell and landline. I also wen’t to the Do Not Call Registry, to register both phones. It took about 30 days, but the calls definitely started to fall off…and when you tell them you’re on the do not call registry, I think they can be fined for continuing to call…but who’s got time to bother with that, lol</p>
<p>Has anyone asked them who they are and how they got your number?</p>
<p>It may be that these calls are coming from overseas, in which case the Do Not Call listing does nothing. For a while I was receiving a lot of calls offering to get me a lower rate on my mortgage, and the calls were from overseas (the callers had strong accents, but were always named “Steve” or “Bob.”) Apparently if somebody expresses interest, these outfits then sell your name to a mortgage provider in the States–that’s how they get around the calling prohibition–the U.S. company doesn’t call you. I just tell the callers that they are working for criminals, and that they should be ashamed of themselves.</p>
<p>Oh, they don’t give a dead rat’s behind about the do not call list and just laugh in your face if you ask them to remove the number from their list. Once when H pressed “1” and asked the guy to remove the number from their directory, H was told to “F*** off”. :eek: H calmly filed another report with the FCC (f-words included) - what else can one do?
We get daily recorded messages on our answering machine asking us to call back about to find out about great loan modification programs. Yeah, right.</p>
<p>I will say that the Do Not Call list substantially reduced the overall number of marketing calls we receive.</p>
<p>I do know they’re spoofing the number that shows up on caller id. That can be done electronically, how I do not know. Evidently there are real scam business behind this that sell worthless warranties. Why the feds don’t crack down (how hard would it be to follow someone’s credit card payment to the perps?) is beyond me.</p>
<p>maybe a call to my congressperson? Oh I forgot. Live in DC now. Don’t have a congressperson…</p>