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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI 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.
OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)calls from our own phone number. At least that's the number showing up on caller ID.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)mitch96
(13,924 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)Bettie
(16,122 posts)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
(8,928 posts)One is the auto warranty nonsense, the other is the Im going to be arrested nonsense.
I dont 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 dont want to miss important calls. Blocking the phone numbers doesnt 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 Im just going to have to send everything to voice mail if I want to sleep.
NQAS
(10,749 posts)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.