Paul's Journal - "FTC goes nuclear" on car warranty robocallers

"FTC goes nuclear" on car warranty robocallers

Comments

"FTC goes nuclear" on car warranty robocallers

Comments

Profile

Latest Month

Page Summary

Tags

May. 15th, 2009 at 5:03 PM

A follow up to my post the other day about Reddit.com users using social engineering to strike back at the car warrenty robocallers. The Federal Trade Commision has gone to war with the two companies responsible for most of the madness.

"This is one of the most aggressive telemarketing schemes the FTC has ever encountered," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. "I’m not sure which is worse, the abusive telemarketing tactics of these companies, or the way they try to deceive people once they get them on the phone. Either way, we intend to shut them down."

( 2 comments — Leave a comment )

furycom wrote:

May. 16th, 2009 12:16 am (UTC)

"I'm not sure what's worse." What's worse is that this has been going on for at least 18 months and the FTC doesn't do a thing about it until a senator gets called while in a hearing, then suddenly they're all aghast and scrambling.

Link | Reply | Thread

chrisfs wrote:

May. 16th, 2009 12:37 am (UTC)

Serves them right. It could just be me, but I like to think that it's part of having an Administration that actually gives a damm. Extremely glad that they are freezing assets. This will stop happening when people realize it doesn't pay.

Link | Reply | Thread

( 2 comments — Leave a comment )

October 2009