i'm being haunted...

[acroyear]

...by weirdo system who for some reason think that a car attached to MY phone numbers (especially my work number) is about to expire its warrenty and should i renew it yada yada.  First it was my work # and hey've now got my cell phone # in their "system".

the calls are ALWAYS automated - there's never a human on the other end.  The latest claimed to be from a Lincoln-Mercury-Isuzu (what a combo) dealer.  I have, of course, never owned any of the above.

I've been getting calls at work on it for over a year (you'd think by my not replying to them that I didn't want it or didn't believe them).

Is this a scam?

Come to think of it, the one time I did answer, press "1", and talk to a human, they kept trying to get me to approve the "renewal" and I almost agreed to it (my wife's car I knew was close to the end of its).  After trying several times to get THEM to actually identify the car in question, which they failed to do (you'd think they'd know), I said, "I'll talk to my wife, since its her car, and call you back." (and of course, never did.)

Update: google says yes, it seems to be going around...

Comments

[wildwose.livejournal.com]

I think it's a scam, we have gotten the same calls and a quick Google reveals a bunch more folks. Next time I get it, I think I will have some fun and "speak with a representative"

Of course it's hard to have fun knowing what I do. I used to work for a telemarketing company. Sorry to admit that. Lasted a couple of months. I was even a "team leader" at 18. The process was legit, a controlled purchasing card to use with the company's catalog of useless crap. But the experience and the desperate people who were working the phones for commission made it vile. Then one day I showed up for work and there was a sign on the door about the FBI. Turns out it was a legitimate business being used for laundering money. My second FBI questioning....but that's another story. Blah.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

I've got the same problem... with Oxon Hill High School. They keep calling the Blackberry that work assigned me. I keep calling them and telling them that I'm not a parent, so I don't need to know when their PTA meeting is, but they won't take my number out of the system until I can tell them the name of the child it is associated with. How am I supposed to do that?

I really should get a cease and desist order...

Doc

[supergoober.livejournal.com]

I get this one at work all the time, and it's an inbound customer service number, so I have to answer. Grrrr.

[giddysinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they kept calling me on my cell phone as well. I had assumed it had something to do with the dealership where I just my car repaired. It's about the only time in the last year that I gave my cell phone out to a business and not a friend.