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jmowreader

(50,520 posts)
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 03:05 PM Nov 2021

I figured out how Biden can win the hearts and minds of the entire country

Go after the extended auto warranty industry.

First problem is no one likes getting daily calls from people wanting to sell them extended warranties. They don't even care if you already have such a warranty; my sister has an extended warranty on her Colorado and gets these calls.

Second problem is they use some of the worst tactics of scammers, like spoofing phone numbers. I've received extended warranty calls from my parents' old phone number. Since both of them are in St. Thomas Cemetery in Coeur d'Alene, ID, I kinda doubt they're selling extended warranties!

And third, I kinda doubt those warranties are even real.

Solving this problem needs to happen, and Trump wouldn't have even thought about it. It isn't pleasant getting out of the shower to answer the phone and discovering it's a warranty scammer.

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I figured out how Biden can win the hearts and minds of the entire country (Original Post) jmowreader Nov 2021 OP
We have received OLDMDDEM Nov 2021 #1
The calls are coming from inside the house? lagomorph777 Nov 2021 #2
If I don't know who it is I don't answer.. so now they are TEXTING me about warranties, uff.nt mitch96 Nov 2021 #3
I've had that happen too FoxNewsSucks Nov 2021 #4
Yesterday, I got one of those Bettie Nov 2021 #5
Most of my spam calls are of two varieties GoodRaisin Nov 2021 #6
Wouldn't matter NQAS Nov 2021 #7
I don't own a car. I still get the calls and texts. Runningdawg Nov 2021 #8

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
5. Yesterday, I got one of those
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 03:20 PM
Nov 2021

and it said it was from U of I Hospitals on the caller ID. My son had surgery this summer, so I answered in case there was a bill I missed or something.

GoodRaisin

(8,902 posts)
6. Most of my spam calls are of two varieties
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 03:49 PM
Nov 2021

One is the auto warranty nonsense, the other is the “I’m going to be arrested” nonsense.

I don’t answer the calls but they are still bothersome, causing my phone to ring and waking me up. I could send all my calls to voice mail before I go to bed, but I don’t want to miss important calls. Blocking the phone numbers doesn’t resolve the problem because they just keep coming from more and more “spoofed” phone numbers.

So, even for people who ignore the calls we still have this kind of problem. Guess I’m just going to have to send everything to voice mail if I want to sleep.

NQAS

(10,749 posts)
7. Wouldn't matter
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 03:53 PM
Nov 2021

The RW will be outraged anyway. They'll find something to be angry about.

Who does Joe Biden think he is, trying to obliterate the extended warranty industry and put hard-working scammers out of work?

If my mama didn't get calls from scammers, she'd get no calls at all, and she'd be lonely and die. Is that what Joe Biden wants, to kill old people?

Oh, great. Now I'll have to spend hours looking for how to get an extended warranty on my 1977 AMC Pacer.

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