Ah, right, OK - the fake renewal scam - I’ve seen that one with web domain registration too - because the registrant’s contact details used to be in the open, you’d get a scary letter strongly implying that you need to ‘renew’ with a company that you had actually never dealt with.
There’s probably multiple scams. A few years ago a reporter investigated one of them and that one was apparently someone pretending to be from Bank of America. When she had a Chinese friend call them back the person told them someone in China was trying to send her money, and they needed her account number to deposit the funds.
Wow. You must be really lucky not to have gotten these calls.
I moved out of state and kept my old area
code - made management so much easier. Now when a call comes in from my old area, I can easily ignore it, and the frequency of those calls has diminished to 1-2 a week. At the same time scammers in my new area haven’t tumbled to the fresh sucker in town.
Dan
That makes sense, but I didn’t want people I was calling to think someone was calling them from out-of-state and ignore my calls.
I have one word for you: “voice Message”.
Dan
Bingo, I think…
Been a long while since any Nigerian scam, but every so often I get a trip down nostalgia lane when some pitch about enhancing my penis makes it past the filtering, so I’ll take that to fill the card.
I’m not at that point but when I truthfully told one, “My newer car could drink this year if it was human. What can you do for me?” she hung up.
Well over 50% of the phone calls I’ve gotten in the past 3 years have been from robots desperate to tell me that they’re concerned that my car’s warranty is expired. Not calls of this nature and also warnings about the IRS/timeshare etc too, better than half are calls about this exact topic of car warranties. It’s madness.
You ought to try calling people sometime. You would be amazed at how many people either let their voicemail fill up, so that you can’t leave a message, or else have never set it up in the first place.
So how much money did they send?
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I get one of these a -week- that makes it to a voicemail. I have no idea how many come in with my cell provider showing caller as ‘Scam Likely’ and don’t get that far.
But I’ll still link this to the scam thread for tracking. 
I hadn’t gotten a call or card in years. Although, I still have a landline that I screen calls on that rings every day without anyone leaving a message, so who knows? I used to get letters, cards and calls all the time and have never taken the warranty bait.
A week or so ago, I laughed at a postcard telling me I still had (a limited) time to extend my car’s warranty.
I never buy new and I drive 'em into the ground. My present ride is a 20 year old rusting Silverado. I doubt very much there is anything they can do for me.
I’ve been getting the extended car warranty robo-calls quite frequently. There were two distinct sources:
(1) A female robo-voice who pronounced the word “warranty” rather strangely, with the accent on the final syllable: warranTEE.
(2) A rather stern-sounding male robo-voice.
Both of them, in their robo-messages, offer me the option to press 2 to be put on their do-not-call list. After getting these calls more-than-enough times, I tried it with the female robo-voice. Well, surprise, surprise! It’s been several weeks and I haven’t heard from that one again!
So I tried it with stern male robo-voice. But they are still calling me, sometime several times in a day.
I have an answering mochine, so I can and do screen ALL incoming calls before I pick up. The majority are silent hang-ups.
Now I’ve got a question that I really want explained, that I have NEVER seen or heard an answer for:
We all know that scam calls use bogus caller-ID numbers. Even when the same caller calls over and over (e.g., the extended warranty scams) they use a different bogus caller-ID every time.
To complain to the FCC via their web page (or by any other way), they require you to give the caller’s number. How could they take any action otherwise? And how the hell does it do any good to lodge a complaint at all, when every caller-ID is clearly bogus, and all are different?
So, how in the hell does one complain to FCC about these shit calls, and what are they going to do about it anyway, and how did those other 12,000 other disgruntled phone customers make their complaints?
Wouldn’t that be ‘voiceMessage’ ?
I still get those e-mails fairly regularly, generally caught in the Spam filter. As we speak I have variant one out of 17 messages in my junk folder (most of those are just adds), from late last month. This one is from ‘Wealth Management and Investment brokers’ from Togo who represent ‘Ultra-High Net Worth Clients’ among others. I still inexplicably get a kick out of them.
Get auto warranty calls at a reasonable clip as well.
Yeah, I get those a LOT. Sometimes five a day. Just because I have a Toronto area code doesn’t mean I speak Chinese or are hiding from Immigration or the Chinese police.
Perhaps you should finally extend the warranty Maybe the calls would stop.
I was getting a lot of calls from the “Medicare Assistance Center,” or something like that. I think they were trying to sell me Medicare Advantage Plans, but I didn’t listen long enough to find out. This would seem to be confirmed by the fact that they seemed to taper off right about the time that Medicare open enrollment ended (although I still get one or two occasionally, even now).
We also get calls about an “urgent legal matter”–so urgent, they can’t say what it is, apparently. I suppose we could find out if we would “press 1 to speak to your assigned representative,” but we never have.