Posted on 05/15/2009 6:54:08 PM PDT by metmom
A federal judge has issued a pair of temporary restraining orders to halt what officials describe as a wave of "robo-calls" warning people their auto warranties are expiring and offering new service plans.
U.S. District Judge John F. Grady issued a temporary restraining order against Transcontinental Warranty Inc. on Thursday and one against Voice Touch Inc. on Friday.
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against the companies in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Thursday. Chairman Jon Leibowitz says the FTC "has disconnected the people responsible for so many of these annoying calls."
Officials say Americans have gotten as many as 1 billion of the random prerecorded phone calls. Grady's orders also freeze the companies' assets.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I'm glad to see someone taking action.
why did it take so long to shut them down.
I get at least 3 of these each week. Remind me why I signed up for the Do Not Call registry?
Thank you Jesus. :-)
I can’t count the calls from them, either, but there’s never been a person there for me to threaten.
Are you drunk dialing again, Bender?
I hate these rotten sobs, calls at home.... at work... on cell phone. May their computer dialer rot in hell!
Indeed. All of our lines are on the “do not call” registry, and I must get 4-5 of these a week.
I’ve never had a car warrantee in my life. But I was getting these dam calls. On my cell phone no less.
SO Good to hear! I laughed when I got the first call, all of our cars are over 20 years old! Should I be surprised that my warranty is OVER?
I wasn’t laughing after the second, third, fourth and on .. calls that I got.
Mr. mm got one of them on the phone once and asked which vehicle it was that had the warranty about to expire and they asked him to tell them the make and model.
He then said that since they called him to tell him that the warranty was about to expire that they should have that information so they should be able to tell him which vehicle it was. They hung up.
When I would get them on line to tell them not to call any more, they hung up faster than I could believe. I finally did get my two cents in before they could answer back and that is what put an end to it for us.
I've gotten several of them and the latest one, three days ago, I followed the prompts and got a female. In answer to each of her questions I demanded they remove my number from their call list. The last time I stated my request she said "NO" and hung up.
I have already reported them to the FCC and for whatever reason they can't do anything about it as detailed in a written response to my complaint.
Gosh, I thought the government was supposed to be the answer to all our junk phone calls by implementing the "Do Not Call" list..........LOL!
Similar calls assure me that my (nonexistent) credit card bill can be resolved and that I can get my (nonexistent) mortgage back on track. They will NOT give you any information about who they are.
Hopefully the ‘robo-calls’ from the politicians will also get stopped.
I’ve been getting their calls too.. and on my cell phone (!)
and they keep calling me even though I still have almost three years left on the factory warranty...
Same here, the people at this company should have their names and addresses put up in public. I get at least five or ten a week, possibly more. Can you imagine if an elderly person with mild senility gets this type of phone call. They would probably sign up for the warranty.
The first time I got a call from these people,
I was on the freeway and they somehow got my
cell phone number.
The other company that is just as annoying is
credit services. I pretend I’m interested in
rolling over my non existent balance when I talk
to them, and I’ll put them on hold, however,
sometimes I’ll get a rude employee who hangs
up on me before I can say “hold on, please”.
Good!
I was thinking about doing the same.
I got three or four calls... AFTER they allegedly took me off their list.
(Of course, I did string them along and ask how much it would cost to renew the warranty on my 1962 Chevy pick-up or my 1982 Oldsmobile for the first two calls.)
It's pretty simple. You should have complained to the FTC, not the FCC. No wonder they couldn't help.
It appears government needs to also go after the credit card services people. I hate those people, too many
times I’ve dropped what I’m doing to go answer the
phone, only to have them at the other end of the line.
And it does no good to tell them to take you off their calling list.
And right now there are also so many people behind on their bills, through no fault of their own in many cases, that these calls added to the other “collections” calls are an even more nefariously evil intrusion.
My wife applied for a job the other day in NC and she got called. They asked her a lot of questions, like they were filling out an application with her over the phone and then they said, “ok, in order for us to send you the application for the job all we will need is your credit card number.” My wife asked why and they hung up. INTERESTING NEW SCAM.
Scams like this wouldn’t work if people didn’t fall for them.
Good thing your wife was on the ball.
Not good enough yet, put the bastards in jail for a long, long time.
As soon as somone turns up the address and phone number to these SOB's, post it please.
The SOB cowart is a scum sucking attorney, should have known!!Owner at TransContinental Warranty President / CEO at CDC Capital Ventures, LLC Past President / CEO at Beneke Corporation Education Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Voice Touch , Owners
James A and Maureen Dunne
22 Promenade At Lionspaw
Daytona Beach, FL 32124-1500
Great link.
I sure am glad that even liberal judges hate telemarketers.
I spend several minutes explaining to one of these clowns why cars should be outlawed in favor of bicycles one afternoon; and got him to hang up on me. Al Gore would have been proud of me. I haven’t been bothered since...
More G*dforsaken regulation. If you’re stupid enough to fall for this, you deserve to be ripped off. Keep the government out of business.
Good job... you get Twenty Carbon Zimbabwe-Rupees, courtesy of Al Gore.
I asked them, how much to cover my 1924 Maxwell, it was a low mileage and bought from the orginal owner, Jack Benny.
They hung up on me.
Good. Bury the bastards. Those calls come into my cell phone, into my dedicated fax line, everywhere. Glad to see their assets are frozen. Bury the bastards good.
“There is another one from a group called “Account Services” offering to reduce your credit card interest.”
Yup....I get harassed by both of these companies. Sometimes they will call me twice a day. The number on the caller ID is bogus and leads to disconnected numbers.
I hope that she did not give them her Social Security Number.
Me, too. But only on my cell phone.
It took only one billion fake calls and one hundred thousand complaints for the FTC to get these guys.
I hate these people!!!!!!
I assume you are a libertarian, the Libertarian agenda of no rules and no laws. The strong eat the weak.
“Keep the government out of business.”
Right on. Eliminate the chartering of corporations by government.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I voted for Barr.
It was so shocking to find out that the warranty on my 10 year old car was about to expire. They owe me reparations.
Lately I have been having fun with these folks.
Stay on the line till you get a real person and she will transfer you to a warranty specialist.
Next - string the warranty specialist along for a while and then fess up that you had not intention of buying a warranty. You just wanted to waste his time.
I can usually get them to cuss me. I enjoy hearing their frustration.
Senator Schumer got one when he was in a key meeting and now he’s hot to go get ‘em. Fine with me.
I make a game of it to see how long I can keep ‘em on the phone. What? my credit card? Hold on I’ll go get it.....
What? Read you the number? OK hold on... the numbers are small I need to get my glasses....
Personal phone number of scum owner in this thread. (can’t say if it’s valid or not)
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8889989893/2
Company: Transcontinental Warranty, Inc.
Address: 1700 NW 64th St., #400
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33309
Alt Addr: PO Box 668787
Pompano Beach, FL 33066
Phone: 888-998-9893
Fax: 954-776-3767
Web Site: tawarranty.com
Email: customercare@tawarranty.com
Owner: Christopher D. Cowart - President/CEO
Business Start Date: 6/6/2007
Company ID: 92009212
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8889989893/2
Right! More government control! Yeah!
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