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After the FCC sent cease-and-desist letters last month, the number of vehicle warranty scam calls dropped by 60 percent. But don’t expect this relief to last.
The scam calls that are harder to identify come from a real, human caller who shares accurate details about your current car make and model, mileage, insurance, and current warranty.
You've probably received calls that your car warranty is expiring or has expired. They're almost never from dealers or manufacturers. Column: Consumers are receiving billions of car-warranty calls.
The call typically begins "We're trying to reach you about your extended warranty"; it is a phishing scam intended to trick the caller into calling the provided number and then submit their credit card details to extend a non-existent warranty. Over 58 billion of these fraudulent robocalls have been made since 2021.
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Serial robocaller Fereidoun "Fred" Khalilian has been banned from telemarketing for life and fined more than $4 million to settle Federal Telecommunications Commission charges he used robocalls to ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...