Hoax calls from 202-552-1332

[kiwidiva]

I keep getting calls from this number - with a recording telling me my car warranty has expired. I don't even have a car so I always hang up... then I got this in my email from a co-worker...

Watch out for hoax telemarketing calls from 202-552-1332. These guys have been calling cell phones and home phones. They usually say one of the following:

1) Your car warranty is about to expire…

2) Fannie Mae had just started a new Home Mortgage program which offered Home Financing as low as 1%, for those with good, credit, bad credit, or bankruptcies.

3) We are a collection agency…

Do not give these guys any information. This is a likely phishing scheme. If you see this number on your cell phone or caller id, do not answer.

Is anybody else getting hit up by this scam?

[Vanguard]

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Mahalo for the link. HT membership really does have its privileges

[kiwidiva]

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My co-worker also encouraged me to register my home and cell phone on the National Do-Not-Call registry. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/donotcall/

That might work for telemarketers but I don't think "phishers" honor the registry.

[Surfingfarmboy]

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I have two cell phones with 808 area codes and I'm constantly getting calls from that A/C 202 number. I've never actually answered an incoming call from that number, but it is always showing up on my missed call list. In fact, I received a call from whoever it is last night on one of the aforementioned Hawaii cell phones. I always wondered who/whom was incessently calling and why.

[helen]

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I got about 2 or 3 calls this month tell me my car warranty has expired and like kiwidiva I don't own a car so I just hang up.

[tutusue]

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To those of you who have received the 202 calls...out of curiosity, are any of your cell phones already registered on the Do Not Call list and were they registered prior to the first scam call? Just curious.

[kiwidiva]

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No tutu, I wasn't registered - and now it won't let me.

It keeps saying that the number I'm inputting doesn't match the number I'm calling from (of course it does!) I don't have time to keep trying right now...

[tutusue]

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Kiwidiva...you can register online HERE.

[Kalei99]

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You can also file a complaint on that website here.

[oggboy]

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I keep getting calls from this number - with a recording telling me my car warranty has expired. I don't even have a car so I always hang up... then I got this in my email from a co-worker...



Is anybody else getting hit up by this scam?

Mahalo for the info, I was wondering whose number that was cause I would let the call go to me messages. When I checked my message a voice recording would come on telling me my warranty is about to expire and to give them a call. The part that was confusing me was WHAT WARRANTY?
So I never bothered calling, lucky thing! It seems I get this call oncw a week, in fact just this past Wednesday my cell phone rang at 3 a.m. I jumped out of bed thinking I was late for work then I noticed that phone #552-1332. Plus it`s the area code that thru me off.

[joshuatree]

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Mahalo for the info, I was wondering whose number that was cause I would let the call go to me messages. When I checked my message a voice recording would come on telling me my warranty is about to expire and to give them a call. The part that was confusing me was WHAT WARRANTY?
So I never bothered calling, lucky thing! It seems I get this call oncw a week, in fact just this past Wednesday my cell phone rang at 3 a.m. I jumped out of bed thinking I was late for work then I noticed that phone #552-1332. Plus it`s the area code that thru me off.

Call that number back from a payphone collect, tell'em it's regarding the warranty.

[oggboy]

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Call that number back from a payphone collect, tell'em it's regarding the warranty.

Good Idea and then walk away with the phone dangling

[Lei Liko]

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DoNotCall's a piece of crap. We've had our land line registered since its creation and we still get hit at least 2 times a day. I don't know how many times I've filed complaints. No one's bothered to do anything about it, obviously, because we still get the same telemarketers calling.

www.800notes.com is a website I use to find out who these people are. 98% of the time, their numbers are labeled "800 Service" on my Caller ID. I take the 800 number and do a search on the website, and I'll come up with user comments from others who've been called from the same number.

Dell Financial Services is on my $#!+list because they keep calling even though no one in my household has an account with them!

[Miulang]

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The Do Not Call list has been working pretty good for me. I'm just peeved that charitable organizations and people conducting polls can still call. And now you've got scam artists who call up saying they are conducting a poll and then launch into a sales pitch. Most of the time, I just let the phone ring to voice mail and screen the calls that way.

For people who did register their numbers previously and want to continue to be on that DNC list, you will need to re-register if you registered when the service first became available. Some fools who set up the list in the first place decided that after 5 years, people needed to reregister so that those who wanted to get solicitation calls would then be able to receive them again (yeah, right).

Miulang

[LikaNui]

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Is anybody else getting hit up by this scam?

Maybe a dozen times now, including just five minutes ago.
I just hang up on 'em. But it still ticks me off big time.