Car Warranty Scam

You are correct.  While this is a numbers driven site, you are correct to post in the forum section imho.  These scammers are using using local spoofing/cid with each call being from a different number!  The forum is of more use than listing under each number.  We get so many of these calls, that we are recognizing local numbers that are calling us.  Businesses and personal numbers.  We cannot block them, as they are our customers!!

This scam is also clearly dishonest in other ways.  They claim they will warranty any car.  When they called me the recorded message claimed the warranty expired or was about to expire.  To test them out I gave them the details about my wife's 1997 car.  The woman said "Thank you very much".  Before I could get another word in, she hung up.  I was going to point out that the recorded message clearly stated that my wife's car could get a warranty.  I used the redial feature to learn that the number was not a working number.

I can tell you that most of these calls are scams.  Here is an example of one robocall:
"Hi, I'm calling from vehicle servicing to reach out regarding the factory warranty on your vehicle. our records indicate it's past the coverage expiration. Is that right? OK, well I see the vehicle here on file is actually still eligible for vehicle warranty protection. For security reasons let me get a specialist who can give you the details on the vehicle and explain your available options. Please hold. {Different Voice} Thanks for holding. all of our coverage specialists are presently busy helping other customers. Please stay on the line to maintain your call priority. Do you hate surprise expenses especially costly auto repairs, The cost of replacing a pricey electrical part or air conditioner or transmission bust your monthly budget. {Back to original voice} you are the next caller in queue to continue holding press 5 now or to request a callback from the next available agent press 9 now. estimated callback time is less than one minute To continue waiting press 5."
 I have received this exact same recording 13 times from  telephone numbers in Massachusetts, NYS, Georgia(the U.S. one), N. Carolina, and Oklahoma. The voice is also always the same. And you always end up being the next call recipient. Now the reason I know for sure they are scams is because *** I have never owned a car and never had a license ***. I have also gotten mail from the post office to 'renew'  my insurance. This is not the only message I have gotten. But If you notice what they all have in common is they NEVER tell you the COMPANY NAME. I never do business with a company too shy to say who they are upfront. I imagine this is some type of ID theft scam. Maybe as the previous poster said, they are looking for your registration information for some illegal purpose.

I agree.  While this is a numbers drive site, and used to work very well, technology has allowed these scammers to call from a different spoofed number each time.  Currently, I believe the forums are a very important part of this site, more so than recording a list of spoofed numbers.  Now, if the number isn't spoofed, than the numbers portion works very well.  Depends on the type of call you are receiving or researching.

Add this number - just got it on my cell:

718-973-4214

It was already added when the site was put up.  I see that someone also posted in it so you could have found it easily to post there.  https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-973-4214

they also called from spoofed number
my phone number star with 716-210-XXXX
716-210-4703,
716-210-6935,
716-210-9001
716-210-8617
716-210-9226
716-210-4725
716-210-6872

One thing I learned several years ago: if you have work done on your vehicle (oil change, tire purchase, etc.), and especially if it’s a larger franchise company, there’s a minuscule area on the form requiring your signature that theoretically gives third party vendors the “right” to contact you if you don5 check the box and opt out. You have to be vigilant about checking this box to prevent this. I used to get postcards/letters all the time about my car warranty expiring (years after I owned the car) and now it’s phone calls. I could never figure out how they got my name, year and vehicle type. I tried calling my dealer, the motor vehicle dept., and then someone in the know asked if I’d ever had the car serviced. First, I said no, I only use my dealer. Then I remembered the tires I’d had replaced. I called them and asked them if they sold my information. The manager was angry at the question but he didn’t deny it and now I’m very careful and demand that the company not use my information, that I’ll know who did it (use a different middle initial). Best advice: don’t answer a call you don’t know. Block the others. I’ll bet I have 500+ numbers blocked at this point.

There's a funny cartoon from a couple of days ago on twolumps.net. where the obnoxious (right wing) fish is "working from home" as an "essential business" calling people about car warranties.  So I'm guessing the people who do the strip had enough.  We get these cr*p calls all the time.  And it's a total scam (yes, both our vehicles are probably past the original warranty -- they're 7 and 9 years old at this point and both have over 100K miles on them.  We stopped taking the first one to the dealership for service because they're *ssholes.  Took me over a year and multiple threats and phone calls, and then tracing the address (in West Chicago!) for the direct mail firm -- and one of them said "Not our account" and the next guy said "Yeah, it is...."  Song and dance about getting our name out of their system, but they took some notice when I threatened them (and the dealership) with the consumer affairs division of both my state's and the Illinois Attorneys-General....  Don't bother with the BBB, they're useless.  Go straight to people with actual clout.  I wish I could, like "Wendy" did, block the spammers on my home line.  But I can't even get the carrier to do that (or fix the caller ID on the T2000 box for that matter) and THOSE [***] just got reported to the the AG in the state where their corporate headquarters is, and the AG in MY state, and to the FCC (sending all FOUR the 7+ page spreadsheet I've been having to keep since the middle of January of all the calls where the caller ID doesn't work (for both spam and legit calls, or they've let the spam calls go through -- including the car warranty ones.  I also sent through the transcript of the chat window conversation with people supposedly in Billing that took over 2-1/4 hours and the transcript ended up being another 25 pages.   (I sent the one to the carrier's "Correspondence Team" with something they have to SIGN for so I have proof they got it...).  But yeah, the car warranty ones are complete garbage.  I've gotten at least 5 in the past 6 weeks (and one of them didn't even REGISTER on the caller ID -- but managed to get through to my answering machine nonetheless...).

The motor vehicles/drivers license here also sells our information.  :-(

That "change the middle initial" trick is something I've done for decades...even pre-Internet.  For example, I used "F" for Firestone when I got tires there, then was flooded with mail with an "F" for my middle initial, so I knew where it came from.  Then you can contact the culprit with another data-sharing opt-out request that they previously ignored.

With email you can accomplish the same thing by getting your own domain name and hosting (it's very inexpensive now). Don't set up a web site, just use the email. Many hosting plans include an enormous number of email addresses (mine includes up to 800!) So Costco, for example, gets costco@sirbedeveresdomain.com, eBay sends mail to ebay@sirbedeveresdomain.com, the Dept of Motor Vehicles gets dmv@sirbedeveresdomain.com, etc. etc.

Makes it easy to cut off those who get annoying (and I can switch them right back on again if I need to) and also makes it clear who's selling email addresses.

I can attest that both your system with email addresses and GregAtTheBeach’s system of changing initials (or sometimes slightly changing the spelling of my first or last name) have both worked well for me for years.
One time I received snail mail for one of my name change aliases years after I had used that name and the company I had given it to had gone out of business and was pretty much forgotten.  But then, a company’s data is considered an asset to be sold off with the rest of their material assets when they go defunct, so you never know whose hands it will end up in, or what they will do with it.
I do find that the email system allows for more anonymity, and it is amusing when that email comes in with a salutation of “Hello Mr. Acme” on an acme@mydomain.com account.

Over the past 2 weeks, I have received this robo-call message regarding an auto warranty.  I never answer numbers I don't know.  They have used numerous different phone numbers on CID... here are the ones that I have saved:  779-209-0479, 309-220-3443, 217-298-7013, 630-446-6294, 872-234-7668, 815-340-1729, 708-419-4465, 618-217-2212, 224-225-7560, 630-446-6247, and 331-216-1854.  The message is always exactly the same... it says : for security reasons they will transfer you to a specialist... then they want you to press a number if you want them to call you back, then they say to press a different number to continue to hold for the next available "specialist".  By this time, my voicemail stops recording.  I have reported ALL the numbers to the FTC (DoNotCall complaint).  It is increasingly annoying to have to listen to this  l o n g recording 3-4 times a day then erase it.  They are incredibly persistant! and I'm sure all the numbers are spoofed.  I sure wish the "feds" would figure out who these idiots are and throw the book at them.

Why don't you erase the message as soon as you recognize that it's no one to want to hear from?