Spam call and vehicle warranty?? why???

[wdfifteen]

I had a flood of them in December. They've dropped off now. I don't know why the came or went

[A930Rocket]

No car warranty calls for me, but I’ve been getting calls that my power or water is going to be cut off if I don’t make a payment in 30 minutes.

That and texts that ask if I’ll support an vote for the two dems in the Georgia runoffs.

[Check 6]

If you have an IPhone you can select a mode where if the caller is not on your contacts or a frequent person yogurt call the phone will ring silently and thus you don’t have to answer it . I tel, people if I don’t answer please leave a message and I will get back to you saves me answering lots of span calls

[fastfredracing]

Monday morning here. 10:30. I had 3 wait customers this morning, and missed 5 phone calls. I just went back, and scrolled through messages, and caller ID. Only one of those calls was a legit customer. The rest, were all google listing update calls .
If I legit knew where they were at, it would create problems for me , and them

[masraum]

Originally Posted by KNS

Something to keep in mind about answering robocalls (don't answer them in the first place!), if you start speaking, even to a recording, they can record your voice and use it as an electronic signature for authorizing charges via the phone.

If you haven't already - register you phone number on the donotcall.gov site. It will help somewhat.

If I don't recognize it as a SPAM call, and I say hello. I think the system on the other end waits for a second "hello." If I don't get a response, then I put the call on mute and wait until the far end hangs up. If I had more time like (is it Glenn or Paul) I'd get them on the phone and waste a bunch of their time before I then explained that I drove a 1969 beetle with a million miles on it.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 911boost

It is infuriating.

I block every one of those calls and it has seemed to help.

They can record me saying 'Fukc You" as much as they want.

Yep, every time I get a call and accidentally answer, I then block the number.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Yep, been getting one or two calls a day as a "last chance warning" to renew my car warranty. My newest car is 2013, but haven't had a warranty of any kind for 25 years on any vehicle.

It sickens me that these lazy fools (refusing to work a real job), are taking advantage of the elderly, and the gullible with money making scams.

Actually, they are working a job just as real as any other. They are in India or wherever they are, go into a large business office and have business gear and get a paycheck. The people on the phone probably don't know or care that it's a BS/scam thing. THey probably also get graded on how many calls they have and how many fish they hook. They probably get cussed at plenty by the recipients of the calls. So when someone wastes their time, it probably really only hurts the little guy on the phone (screws up his call stats, maybe makes his job more precarious).

I'm not going to give them any money, but I also don't have any animosity to the little folks that are trying to feed their family in a place where that's probably not that easy.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

I don't let them get a single word in, then try to sell them a membership to the international association of Trailer parks, traier park supervisors, and assistant trailer park supervisors .
I always make sure to tell them to have a blessed day

Maybe a subscription to pork of the month by mail would be more effective. If you want to be an equal opportunity offender, you could alternate beef and pork.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Monday morning here. 10:30. I had 3 wait customers this morning, and missed 5 phone calls. I just went back, and scrolled through messages, and caller ID. Only one of those calls was a legit customer. The rest, were all google listing update calls .
If I legit knew where they were at, it would create problems for me , and them

You're not likely to fly to India any time soon.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by masraum

Yep, every time I get a call and accidentally answer, I then block the number.

Then you start getting the calls from a number that looks close to one that you normally get. Or a number that s one digit off from your own.


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[GH85Carrera]

Blocking a number is just something to make you feel better, and does not do anything to stop the calls. They scammers just spoof any old number they want. I have received calls that were my own phone number! There are hundreds of millions of possible numbers. You can't block them all.

I had one lady call me and was irate that I was calling her. I told her, I never called her, and that is was scammers spoofing my number. I answer most calls only because my cell phone is my business line. If it is a call with no ID except the name of city, I will let that go to voice mail.