Warranty Telemarketers

How do they get away with this scam?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2279347,00.asp

It’s supposed to be illegal to make autodialer calls to mobile phones. In addition, it’s illegal to call a telephone number with a recording unless you have a prior business relationship with the caller, or else if it’s a non-profit or a political candidate. Yet I have received no less than forty recorded messages over the past two months telling me “your warranty is about to expire or has already expired”. If I try to ask questions, I get hung up on. If I try to say “put me on your do not call list”, I get hung up on. In fact, if I do anything other than roll over and give them my VIN number and personal information, I get hung up on.

This is illegal and unethical. I am finding myself wishing I were with Verizon so that I might have someone on my side tracking down these abusive telemarketers.

And I have a sneaking suspicion this is not just any old telemarketing scheme. From reading various forums online, they ask several innocuous questions before getting to the meat of the matter: your credit card number, security code on the back of the number, last four digits of your social security number, etc.

It just makes me so angry that I’m paying for their damn telephone calls every time! I don’t know what to do except rant here. Thanks for putting up with me.

EDIT: Seems similar to this report on ripoffreport.com: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/317/RipOff0317034.htm