# I'm calling about your Car warranty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-about-your-car-warranty/948752 "2021-08-15T23:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 43
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-about-your-car-warranty/948752/43 "2021-08-17T17:32:47Z")
At this point, let us all pause for a bit of spammer entertainment and read, or re-read, the sad tale of Releasha Jones, the spamee who could never escape: > [@Ways you've messed with a telephone scam artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-youve-messed-with-a-telephone-scam-artist/686367/18): > > Let me tell you the story of Ms. Releasha Jones. When I worked for a medical office in Houston (2007-2010), one of my responsibilities was managing the call center. And during times of heavy call traffic, I would take overflow calls myself. For whatever reason, this office got a ton of scam and solicitor calls. The whole gamut: pest control, medical supplies, insurance, business loans, the infamous “toner scam,” legitimate (but still annoying) toner salespeople, everything. It was profoundly ir… > [@OneCentStamp](#): > > [. . .] > > Usual practice, approved by me, was simply to hang up on these people. Because the hang-up button on our phones said **RELEASE** , one of my employees, an African-American girl, started referring to hanging up on someone as “transferring to Releasha.” (In Houston, that would have been a not at all implausible name for an African-American woman, so it really was pretty damned funny.) > > [. . .] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-about-your-car-warranty/948752)._