About once a week I get a call or voicemail about my cars factory warranty expiring. Funny thing is that I live in Manhattan and don’t own a car! Turns out that I am not the only one getting these SPAM phone calls on my cell and house line. I thought I was the only one until I read this little bit on Reddit. It looks like this company National Auto Warranty Services, Inc has been spamming people since early 2008. They have been sued multiple times by carriers such as AT&T and Verizon by making over 2 MILLION ILLEGAL telemarketing calls. F*ing Ba$+@rds!
Nevesis over at Reddit is offering a couple places to file complaints against National Auto Warranty Services. I have already filed mine and I hope you will to if you have also been receiving these calls. I just cant believe this has been going on for over a year and they are still going full steam ahead.
via Boing Boing via Gizmodo
DavidB ( View Profile) Guru - Posts: 1754
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 7:13 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
A couple times a week I get the calls. McAfee (or my provider spam filters) kills their emails easily so I don’t see them and they always call from either an 800 number or a blocked number (neither of which I ever answer), but the annoying part is the snail mail “urgent notice” letters and they are starting to hit my fax machine now.
automan69 ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 502
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 8:30 AM EST from my BlackBerry 8330
I haven’t had them call my cell yet, but I’m sure it will be soon as them do call my house once a week. That’s just eeks me. Now I get mail send to me from this bull sh@t company.
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1259
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM EST from my BlackBerry 8900
I hate those bastards they call me all the time
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 602
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 9:12 AM EST
I’m glad you mentioned this. The first few times I got these voice-mails I thought it was legit. Didn’t take me long, but at least now I know I was not alone.
What truly shocks me is that still sometimes Yahoo sends all the way through to my BlackBerry spam e-mails like: Prince Umbecki of Nigeria has died and I the lowly bank clerk want to share a hidden bank account with you if you can give your bank account info and dog’s name. Kills me every time.
LA Dre Not Registered
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM EST
I get tht call like 3times a week, here a number they call from but u cant call them back 256-659-6931
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1259
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM EST from my BlackBerry 8900
They just call me again a few minutes ago # is 605 393 9811
tommy Not Registered
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM EST from my BlackBerry 8330
Times are tough and I worked for the telemarketing portion of this company. They have two call centers one is in california the other is in woodstock ga. The whole thing is a giant scam they are spoofing the numbers the are calling from if you purchase the warranty the send you an oil bottle full of dye to pour in your vehicle. The first person you talk to is just a prescreener at a call center mentioned earlier they are just there to see if you are interested they did not place the call. There are over 100 companys doing this type of calling. They pay well and convince their employees that its legal. If you want the whole low down such as address and real phone numbers email me at dawg1968@gmail.com
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1259
Posted: April 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM EST from my BlackBerry 8900
Reminds me of the movie “Boiler Room”
MetalWych Not Registered
Posted: April 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
Since I received 2 more calls today on my Storm, I will have to assume that Verizon
Didn’t stop them. I hate these telespammers even
Ore than I hate verizon (and that is saying something
!)
Tommy Not Registered
Posted: April 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM EST
Ill be more than happy to give you their cell numbers if you like