Fake Car Warranty Telemarketer Must Pay $3M

Only when the government gets serious..

and takes everything he and his family have..

and send him to jail for years..

will this type of theft slow down..  

until than...

making 48 million and paying back 3..

is so profitable...

he will just set up the same scam...

again next year..

Damian Kohlfeld's penalty should have been $48 million and a healthy amount of jail time. I do not think he is paying for what he did.

He did more than just make annoying sales calls. He scammed people. He deceitfully separated people from their money, which is a crime. It says in the article: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says the scam raised close to $48 million."

If you are right and most of the $45 million went to pay for warranties, that should have been mentioned in the journal article.

If he were not guilty of scamming people, there would have been no need for consumer redress, which is mentioned in the article.

You charge us with not knowing the whole story; and then you say, "I'm also pretty sure most of the $45 mil went to pay to actual warrantees, staff, offices, and the commissions of his sales team." Therefore, you do not have all the facts yourself. That, on top of your numerous spelling and grammar errors (including the fairly blatant one in which you stop your sentence after "automatically," and just jump to a new paragraph) seriously damages your credibility.

The facts are that he defrauded people. If he were guilty of just making robocalls, I would say that the charges are excessive; but he is also guilty of defrauding people, and he should be forced to pay back for that.

Well, I congratulate them for the ingenuity, I don't condone it, but after all, they were able to get access to all of the money. Are we pointing the hand only at the scammers? What about all those people who did not check into the phone calls beforehand? Just food for thought.

Hopefully, some of the $48 M went to payroll, taxes, overhead.  Kohlfeld undoubtedly blew through the rest.

I used my kids college money to pay this dirt bag, and now he is sitting drinking margarita's in Tijuana. While I was working until I got laid off and now i am struggling to pay bills and keep my house, and his worst fear is running out of cool drinks and hot women. This is ridiculous, might just pay off to become a scam artist, worse case I get time in jail with 3 hot meals, best case, I get a slap on the wrist and pay some small donation to the FTC. This is a fantastic country!

Well at least his kids have plenty of college money now. They could go to Harvard and Yale with that kind of money. Then one day be the doctors and lawyers of our society.

I dont know what is wrong with this company, but the person George Granaty  who mad the deal never ever aviable. I had $ 12.000 dept ...when I realised  no money payed to any creditors until the fee $900. payed to this company ..I Payed personaly off all creditor exept one for $2700 Iam paying the same monthly payment mothly payment for 3 accaunt $361.00 every month ..now is doubled I ever owed they want more mony ???? For what I payed double I owed Please DONT DO any deal with them

Is this a joke? You gave him your kids college fund and blame anyone but yourself?

Not exactly a fair settlement.  What is worse is that some dealers must have given our numbers to them.  My business partner and I bought a Lexus from  LEXUS OF SERRAMONTE and I have no doubt that someone at that dealership gave information to this scammer.  Shortly after we bought the car, each of us received calls on our private cell numbers and the scammer knew what car we owned....  Man, am I ticked.  My only consolation is that we didn't have any damage caused by them other than the irritation caused by their persistent calls.  And, to see that these jerks had to pay so much less than they managed to get from folks, it makes my blood boil.   When they called, they not only used private numbers we gave  must have given our numbers

I thought Republicans were elitist snobs and money hungry Corporate raiders? Now they are uneducated idiots? Make up your mind you pot smokin hippy tree hugger! LOL

I agree with the first half of your reply, but what does the Federal Communications Commision have to do with it?  And What does telemarketing have to do with the Federal deficit?  Confused.

i'm still mad over the hundred or so times i was pestered by these [***].  they ought to be pilloried .

its people like them cause things like mass shootings.


old jim

Judging by the way you write,I can see how you can be taken by any scam on earth. Is illiteracy bliss?