The only good thing that’s come out of the incessant phone calls about are vehicle warranties are the jokes.
IRRITATING VEHICLE WARRANTY ROBOCALLS
Those irritating robot voices have given rise to some very funny memes, but those memes are something I can happily sacrifice if I never hear Generic Human tell me the warranty on a car I haven’t owned in more than six years is about to expire. You don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to stay on the line so I could inform Whoever It Is that that Hyundai Sonata is a distant memory. But I’ve never gone down that road, and now I’ll never have that opportunity.
The Federal Communications Commission, which has governed a portion of my life for three-plus decades, has likely won the hearts and minds of tens of million Americans who answer a call from Idaho or Alaska or Maine telling them about a warranty issue they don’t have. Now, to be fair, most of us have probably given up on answering our phones if a strange number from a state WE’VE NEVER EVEN VISITED appears on the screen, but sometimes we’re hurried and answer without thinking. One one of those occasions, I wish I’d thought to turn the tables on them like THIS guy did:
THE FCC HAS CRACKED DOWN AND PUT AN END TO WARRANTY SCAM CALLS
The FCC announced, on Thursday, that its Robocall Response Team was putting the final nail in the coffin of unwanted and highly annoying scam calls regarding the marketing of auto warranties.
Not only that, the agency pinpointed the origin of those…
