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Have You Received an Auto Warranty Expired Phone Call? It's a Scam!

Did you receive a call from 918-375-2671 telling you that your car warranty has expired and you need to renew it? Scammers are not just busy on the internet, they are burning up the phone lines in attempts to scam people. See below for a consumer report of calls of this type.

In mot cases, the callers can not even tell you the make, model, or year of your car, so it is clearly a scam.  Before you tell them ANYTHING, ask them: "OK, YOU say my warranty has expired?  How do you know?  Prove it by telling me the make, model and year of my vehicle"

We have a report of such a call (received at 5:11 pm EST, May 1, 2008) from 918-375-2671. The victim's phone number was an unlisted business cell phone.  This indicates that the scammers may be dialing numbers at random or from grossly outdated lists.

The recording said that "your factory vehicle warranty had expired", but you could renew it, press 1 for more information.  A male voice came on and asked the make, model and year of "your vehicle".

The victim said "You tell me!  You called saying it had expired, you must know"

The voice on the other end refused to divulge any information, but kept pressing for the victim's information. Since the scammers do not actually have any details about you or your vehicles, this suggests that this is phone spam; random dialing in a blind attempt to sell extended warranties; in violation of the national do-not-call list, for those have registered their phone number.

We looked up the number of the caller.  According to Google, it belongs to:

April Stol - (918) 375-2671
614 Grant St, Agra, OK 74824

As you can see from the Google Earth satellite photo, this appears to be a residential address

This appears to be one of several possible scams:

  1. Individual contractors on commission sales, working from home, cold calling random numbers in an attempt to sell extended warranties.
  2. Companies selling extended car warranties without any knowledge of your situation, just using a phone list (in other words, phone spam or junk telemarketers)
  3. Scammers who don't even represent a real company, merely trying to get you to divulge your credit card or bank information so they can clean out your account.

We instructed the victim to file a complaint with the State Attorney General's Office.

Information About Specific Phone numbers

There are several websites that focus on reports of scam phone calls. See these:

There are a number of common telephone scams, such as:

and some new and as yet, uncommon scams.

What to do about it

See these pages for guidance as applicable to your specific situation:

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