Posted on 05/16/2009 7:44:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
CHICAGO, May 16 (UPI) -- Three U.S. telemarketing firms accused of making misleading "robocalls" about expiring car warranties must stop the practice, a court says.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that a U.S. District Court in Chicago issued a restraining order demanding that three companies accused of aggressively making automated calls to sell auto warranties across the country cease the pitches, The New York Times reported.
"For the first time in months, millions of New Yorkers and people across the country will finally have some relief from these annoying calls with potentially thousands saved from falling into this scam," said U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who added that he himself had received a robocall on his cell phone.
The two firms identified by the FTC were Voice Touch and Transcontinental Warranty, both operating largely out of Florida, which allegedly violated the National Do Not Call Registry and collected $10 million in sales as a result of the calls and mailings, in which the firms falsely told call recipients their car warranties were expiring, the Times said.
I hate these calls. But Schumer... What a putz, huh? One little call on his cell phone and he's squealing like a girl. I've gotten 6 to 12 of these calls EVERY SINGLE DAY for the last two years.
Find the execs of this scam and send them to Gitmo. These annoying calls are the absolute pits.
This is a robopost.
To continue in English, press 1.
I get the calls, too. And I’m on the Do Not Call Registry.
Get a rope.
Schumer is indeed a putz....but we can use him to end the calls. Work with him here. We’re all on the same side with this issue.
I had sorta gotten used to the robocalls coming in EVERY SINGLE DAY; but when they started calling me at work was when I lost it. They shouldn’t have known that I could be reached at that number, yet somewhere out there the database says that that number is associated with me - and so they thought they had the right to call me there as well.
“He’s ignoring us on his home phone, I know let’s call him at work!” I had to waste a lot of their time to make them stop calling me.
Several times a week on home and now the cell.
A month or two ago I played along with the sales guy and it was a very crude pitch to get a CC number for a $375 “deposit.” No finesse whatsoever.
To every question his response was “Blah blah blah, but if you’ll give me that credit card number we can take your #375 deposit and send the paperwork right out to you.”
So why can’t they do anything about spam?????
Gawd, it’s about time they put a stop to this.
I’ve personally often day dreamed of trying to find these scammers and punching them square in the nose.
I just got one of these calls today on a work phone. Almost every person I speak to in CT has received a call from these idiots. They even call on cellphones.
LOL
To: metmom
This company is a Florida company called Transcontinental Warranty, Inc., P.O. Box 668787, Pompano Beach, FL 33066-8787.
They are purportedly calling regarding auto warranties.
These are the phone numbers for them.
305-408-6643
888-998-9893
Owner information:
Owner of this Company is Christopher D. Cowart
tawarranty.com
customercare@tawarranty.com
888-998-9893
TransContinental Warranty
(Telecommunications industry)
Currently holds this position
President / CEO
CDC Capital Ventures, LLC
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years)
Marketing Firms specializing in direct B2C sales, mergers and acquisitions.
President / CEO
Beneke Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Christopher D Cowart’s Education
Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
1979 — 1984
101 posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 5:22:47 PM by kcvl
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Perhaps this issue will make the Dems made enough to reinstate waterboarding.....We know stopping terrorism isn’t enough, but robocalls might push Dems over the top to see the light.
I thought maybe my do not call registry had expired. Don’t you have to renew those every couple of years?
Anyway, what took them so long to catch these guys for violating the do not call list?
I think the government should stay out of it. I hang up.
As did I. I neither live in the US full-time nor own a car. Fortunately, I have not yet been called on my cell phone.
“I think the government should stay out of it. I hang up.”
No the scammers should be waterboarded and then shot.
EVERY cell phone is on the do not call registry! These scumbags deserve waterboarding and more. I especially hate the calls in Spanish — a double insult.
Put razor blades in the rope.
Just make sure you understand this. We can never be on the same side as a liberal flamer. Never.
Would a self-respecting Jewish person ever be on the same side as a nazi who took part in the Holocaust? Yes I compare Schumer to a nazi.
No. Too quick. I want a short rope, with no dropping space.
I will use satan or Schumer to end the robocalls. Not sayin’ we are on the same side, but I’ll use them.
Now, now... Chris Cowart never did... anything that was... illegal...
[pause]
Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.
Same here.
Tried to talk with somebody about telling them to stop calling.
Would get a live person on the phone, ask to speak with a supervisor and click - next day another call.
Here is the interesting part. I give out my work cell number to almost nobody. But a few months back I had my car in to the Ford dealership for warranty work, and gave them my work cell for contact. The calls started that next week for me. I thought it was a scan from the Ford dealer.
I respectfully disagree. The scammers should be forced to listen to recordings of "The One" (off teleprompter) for the rest of their lives. :^)
Sterrrrrrrrrrn!
Heh. Yeah, it was a toss-up between that and the “Hanging’s too GOOD for him...” line.
I advise you to plead guilty and throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Then, they can at least bury you in an unmarked grave to keep them from defiling the body...
Relax... I’ve got an *angle*.
My preferred method involves an asterisk box with enough bandwidth to run 200-250 lines of outbound calls and their 1800 number. They get charged for each call, and it cost me nothing since they are already provisioned here as test lines. I set the caller ID to “DO NOT CALL” and let it run overnight.
It’s amazing how few telemarketers call me these days.
Ouch! That'd hurt the 'ol wallet.
Of course I'm of the opinion that, in addition to the telemarketers, both politicians and phone companies should be held responsible for the whole telemarketer mess.
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