i'm being haunted...
Apr. 16th, 2008 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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...
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...
