automobile warranty scam letters.

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Anyone else get these bogus auto warranty letters??? Seems like every fall I get them and they somehow know my vehicles and approx mileage. have been getting various types of these for many years now. Apparently enough people fall for the scam to keep them in business and they operate just enough on the legal fringes to avoid being shut down. They use bogus headings that are supposed to sound official but they really sound FAKE, like "vehicle service dept" or US Warranty corporation"or Motor Vehicle services" The letters are always similar but they do change address every year or so. They are annoying to get that is for sure.I burn them in my backyard fire pit.
 
I think if you have a mailbox and or a phone you get these. My dad as a board retiree and he made a hobby of calling and aggravating the heck out of these people until they blocked his calls. LOL!
 
Originally Posted By: CKN
I get them...ALL THE TIME.

They go in my recycle bin!


I get them too, and requested they stop mailing me. Of course they haven't. Now i just call them back and give them the impression I'm ALL IN. The disappointment in their voice is priceless when they realize i know they AREN'T my "warranty department". I've advised them this will continue if they do as well.
 
Originally Posted By: BJD78
Anyone else get these bogus auto warranty letters??? Seems like every fall I get them and they somehow know my vehicles and approx mileage.


Any chance that the dealer that sold you your car also sold them your information?
A lot of shady used-car dealerships try to sell you this when you buy your vehicle and then sell it to somebody else when you decline.
 
They also get your info if you apply for an auto loan. Was getting a ton of these after I financed with a small loan from AutoNation. The letters are annoying but the phone calls are worse!
 
Originally Posted By: Kruse
Originally Posted By: BJD78
Anyone else get these bogus auto warranty letters??? Seems like every fall I get them and they somehow know my vehicles and approx mileage.


Any chance that the dealer that sold you your car also sold them your information?
A lot of shady used-car dealerships try to sell you this when you buy your vehicle and then sell it to somebody else when you decline.


I get those letters all the time. I think they get it from the registry because the last one I bought was private party.
 
Originally Posted By: Kruse
Originally Posted By: BJD78
Anyone else get these bogus auto warranty letters??? Seems like every fall I get them and they somehow know my vehicles and approx mileage.


Any chance that the dealer that sold you your car also sold them your information?
A lot of shady used-car dealerships try to sell you this when you buy your vehicle and then sell it to somebody else when you decline.
Originally Posted By: shurguywutt
They also get your info if you apply for an auto loan. Was getting a ton of these after I financed with a small loan from AutoNation. The letters are annoying but the phone calls are worse!


The county treasurers either sell the info or it is super easy to find. I get it for vehicles that were bought privately and not financed.

I bought a 3 year old vehicle with 120000 on it from a dot auction and started getting the calls and letters. I finally started leading them on till I told them it had over 100k on it then they lost interest real quick.
 
uh oh.. it's so "official looking".. oh no!! I'm so scared! *tosses it in the trash*

I know a dealership for my scion was selling my info. After awhile of not going there to buy any parts those warranty mailings stopped. I knew it was them, since there were clues in the letter only that dealer would know. And no, I have never bought anything from that dealership again. I go out of my way to other ones to buy stuff now.
 
They call too.
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They used to send my mom those for a 12-13 year old Buick Rendezvous that had a blown head gasket, blown struts, bad a/c compressor, non-working power windows, and a bad rear differential.

I just laughed
 
The ones I get are pink and look like "disconnect notices".

This websites censorship software will blank anything I have to say about it.
 
I heard about extended warranties when I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer back in the 90's. Simply put, my service advisor told me most were a scam and they didn't accept them. She said they tried at one time and the extended warranty companies made it hard on purpose by making you spend half the day making several phone calls and being on hold forever, paying a low set rate for the labor and only allowing for aftermarket and used parts. We didn't always use OEM parts on customers vehicles but we disclosed it beforehand and it was on older, higher mileage Hondas.
 
So far just bogus letters, they have not called and If they do I will call them out on their scam and hit the call block button. Speaking of calls we do get about 10-20 calls from the usual phone scammers every week.. Rachel of "Card Services scam" The fake IRS scam" and the fake microsoft antivirus scammes". WE have a call blocker that will block 250 #s and about twice a year it fills up and then we start over again. Often these scammers spoof local #'s. They rarely call our cell phones mainly the house land line. Sadly people fall for these scams or at least enough do to keep them in business. O
 
LOL!! There are many many You tube videos of people calling these pukes and phone scammers and messing with them.
 
I have never used a loan, so it has to be either the dealer or the State dept of motor vehicles is selling the registration data ( which would not surprise me as Nebraska will sell or tax anything for a $. These warranty scammers seem to operate just above barely legal, they do offer a product for a price and no one is forced to buy it, but if they were really legit and on the up and up they would not be changing address , phone and contact information every few months. They probably move all of the time to stay a step ahead of the law. They are lower than sewer snakes IMO.
 
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But wait, there's more!

Magazines would send out subscription offers made to resemble "PAST DUE" notices.

My uncle, who was quite "business attuned" showed me one when I was just a kid.

"See this, a secretary would open this and just send the money....thinking a $12-$18 bill was too small to bother thinking about."

I would love to find these people and the ones who operate servers which spread computer infections and ram them in the face repeatedly with heavy rifle butts.

The people who make meth and sell AND BUY kiddie porn....I have specialer plans for them.
 
I loved to get this junk with the postage prepaid envelope for easy mail back. They don’t do that anymore. I would put oak the paperwork in that envelope and with a few old washers or nuts to increase the weight. This was a long long time ago.
 
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