WOO-HOO!

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051502984.html

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*Judge blocks 'robo-calls' selling car warranties*
CHICAGO -- A federal judge has issued two temporary restraining orders designed
to stop what officials describe as a wave of deceptive "robo-calls" warning
people their auto warranties are expiring and offering to sell them new service
plans.

"Today the FTC has disconnected the people responsible for so many of these
annoying calls," Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Friday.

"We expect to see a dramatic decrease in the number of deceptive auto warranty
calls, but we are still on high alert," Leibowitz said in a statement posted on
the agency's Web site.

The FTC filed suit against two companies and their executives on Thursday,
asking a federal court in Chicago to halt a wave of as many as 1 billion
automated, random, prerecorded calls and freeze the assets of the companies...
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Cheers, Bev
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"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.  Tell him that the
  government will give him lots of fish and he will vote for you forever.
  When he doesn't get any fish, blame the other guys."   --A Taxpayer

  I just wonder if it'll stop.  The "Do Not Call List" should've stopped
them and didn't.

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Austin, Texas, USA

 

Well, I'll know if our cell phones ring less than three dozen times
tomorrow.

On a side note, I thought automated telemarketing to cell phones was
illegal, PERIOD.  -Dave

 

Beats me. My cell phone is on 24x7 and in the five years or so that I
have had my current cell phone number, I think I have maybe gotten one
or two telemarketing calls, and those were probably automatically
forwarded to my cell from my home phone number. I did add my cell phone
number to the DNC list, just to be safe.

 John Mayson wrote:

According to one of the online papers all it took is for them to call
chuckie schumers cellphone to get some action.