My apologies if this has already been posted 
Original news link: FCC to enforce robocall crackdown by June 2021 | Fox News
Good, I was getting tired of those.
Don’t be silly. Of course my car warranty is expiring. It’s been expiring ever since I took delivery. The only issue is when it will FINALLY expire.
I used to get these calls, too.
Glad they got them to stop.
Now maybe they can chase down the robocallers that pretend to be my card service company and saying this is my last chance to lower my rates. :dubious:
Also, “Carol from the carpet cleaning company”, which is another of the frequent robo-callers.
Last year, after I pressed one to get to a live person and told the guy in no uncertain terms that I was sick of him calling me at work to tell me for the seventeenth time that this was the “second and final notice” that my car warranty was about to expire, I didn’t get another one.
Until today. :mad:
Through the miracle of CallerID, I’ve managed to avoid dealing with these idiots. But there’s a part of me that wished I’d answered a call and asked precisely which car warranty was expiring. There are 4 vehicles registered in our names, all of which are out of warranty, 2 which are WAAAAAAAY out of warranty.
I’ve stayed on the line before, and when one of their operators finally picked up the phone, I asked them what kind of car I owned. If they know my warranty is expiring, they must know what sort of car I own, right?
Oddly enough, their line always goes dead when I ask that. Must be a bad connection.
I reported them several times to the Do Not Call registry.
Of course, we all know the only real way to defeat these dastardly callers is to hang up curtains and buy a dog.
It’s hard to believe my warranty is expiring when I haven’t bought a car in 25 years. If they want to give me a cheap warranty on my antique truck, I’d go for it.
I so hope they’re sent away for a significant amount of time. Those robo-dialers were hitting businesses and government offices. I don’t like to think of them calling hospitals, but if they hit our PA system’s number, they probably were hitting everything.
I asked them what company they were with once, and they said “GM”. I said “That’s funny, I don’t own a GM car”. click
We’ve been getting them at work for a while now. What’s funny is no one in the company where I work even owns a car.
when I get these kind of phone calls, I try to keep them on the line as long as possible (if on a
land line) I want to realy fluster them by pretending the call is real ,and ,
I just ran off the road “the fender just tore right off and the wheels don’t point straight any more
Thank goodness you called”
“now what can you do for me?” they hang up on me!!!
keep them on the line, it costs them money and time to talk to you,
and, It keeps them from calling the next person.
I read somewhere that their assets have been frozen. Imagine my glee.
We were getting a ton of the similar “mortgage” calls. Including one that purported to be from the Federal Government offering us help as a troubled mortgage holder.
I haven’t had a mortgage in three years.
Well, to them, THAT’S the trouble!
A thought just occurred to me - with malware the state that it is today, it’s a darn good thing most computers (at least, in my experience) are no longer hooked up to a phone line for dial-up connections!
I once removed a piece of malware from my friend’s computer, which had included a dialer. Imagine entire legions of zombified computers making these calls!
The thought is horriffic - score one for the broadband era!