Your Car Warranty Is About To Expire Spammer Identified!

By Alex in Auto & Transportation, Crime & Law on May 6, 2009 at 1:09 am

Tired of getting those "Your car warranty is about to expire" robo-call? I get those several times a week, even though I’m on the do not call list.

Well, thanks to some clever people over at reddit (oh, how I love reddit – can’t beat the sophisticated level of snark there …), we now have the identity of one of the spammers … and their phone number! Link

Will this stop them? Probably not – according to the Arizona Daily Star, it’s not just a one company operation.

Tags: car warranty spam, scam, scammer, telemarketer

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nickolas_warner
May 6th, 2009 at 1:28 am
I get at least 4 a day. I’m not kidding.
Nozzle
May 6th, 2009 at 1:40 am
I hope they got the right number. Crowdsourced revenge can really socially DDOS them, but only if they actually identified the culprit(s). Lucky for them /b/ is down, or they’d be in for some REAL pain.
Larfin Jackarse
May 6th, 2009 at 6:40 am
@Nozzle
they may be down but they aren’t your personal army

This must be a Yanq problem. The only phone spam I have had as an Oz munchkin is from little Johnny Coward asking me to vote for him.
Larfin Jackarse
May 6th, 2009 at 6:41 am
@Larfin Jackarse
That was not me. I said ; ) not
Sue Dunham
May 6th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Phone solicitors have a really crappy minimum wage job. I’m always super polite to them, using their name as tell them that I have a policy of not accepting calls of this nature. It works almost every time, with no argument. They don’t have a response to that on their cheat sheet.
My point is I got my number on the Warranty do not call list by politely asking instead of using threats.
sinless
May 6th, 2009 at 8:58 am
But these calls aren’t from people with crappy minimum wage jobs, they are annoying automated calls that never freaking stop.
The Other Parker
May 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I hate these calls. Whenever I get one on my cell, I add the number to a contact so I can identify them when they call again. Of course, it’s all wishful thinking as the numbers are spoofed and it’s never coming from the same one twice. Now I have a very long list of phone numbers that aren’t even real in the first place.

I’ll be happy when these guys go away.
proscriptus
May 6th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Oh…and then there’s this:

Auto One is David Tabb, 41, a man with a history of dicey consumer practices. Another of Tabb’s companies, Hollywood Dreams, was listed at an address next door to Auto One. Hollywood Dreams was a company used as a front for selling sports and Hollywood memorabilia with forged signatures. In 2002 Tabb pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of tax evasion for his part in a scam to sell the forged merchandise. According to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court, Tabb arranged to meet an undercover federal agent at a Chevron gas station in Irvine to sell him basketballs and other sporting items with forged signatures and fake certificates of authenticity. He continued to sell undercover feds forged merchandise, usually in parking lots, over the next year. Tabb did not respond to messages left at his last known home number or Auto One offices.

Home address:
David P Tabb

2317 N Linwood St
Santa Ana, CA 92705-6959
morumoru
May 6th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I stayed on the line and it gave me a “if you wish to be removed from the list press 2″. I did and it seems to have stopped — for now
Gauldar
May 6th, 2009 at 10:05 am
@Morumoru

I did that and I stopped getting one type of autocaller for a new one which never gives up no matter how many times you press 2 to get removed. From now on I always press 1 to talk to a representitive and tell them I will keep pressing 1 until they stop calling.
Dood
May 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I got one of those calls a few months ago and I called back, I told them I had just bought a brand new car that month, and based on that I was pretty sure my warranty was NOT expired and wouldn’t be for the next 50,000 miles. The caller person just went “Oh. Okay.” and I haven’t gotten any calls anymore.
Frau
May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I had always wanted to get the waranty on my old 54 renewed as a joke.
morumoru
May 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@ Gaulder

sweet – now I have a back up plan if it starts back up!

^__^
Ali S.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Pure internet justice.
mysickfix
May 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
so i called the number listed, and i asked if they were interested in a home warranty, now they are calling my phone and hanging up bwahahahahahahhaa
Marissa
May 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Goodness, this is awesome – I get this call about my “Last” notice at least once a week!
Nora
May 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I got “last notices” for a while, and then they stopped, then I got “Second to last notices”…
and now they’re back to “last notices” again.
*sob*
PotatoCouch
May 6th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
You can find more about it at encyclopediadramatica.

Also, cockeyed.com is looking into it as well. http://cockeyed.com/citizen/car_warranty/warranty.php
Robin
May 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Please update when they arrest these people for fraud.
outraged
Jan 8th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Isnt it sad that you never find these wonderful sites until AFTER you have been defrauded.
I thought I was dealing with a legitimate company about the manufacturer’s extended warranty…until it was TOO LATE ! I want to take legal action. I do not live in California. Anyone know how to go about that ?
I hope he,Dave Tabb,rots in jail ! (i hope you dont consider that abusive since crooks belong in jail)
Thank you Proscriptus for you post. I have shared it with all my contacts. Lets nail this guy… do I need to talk to a U.S. attorney or a federal agent?

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