Sen. Schumer targets bogus auto warranty phone calls using auto dialers and a caller-id masking service.

 
Sen. Schumer targets bogus auto warranty phone calls using auto dialers and a caller-id masking service.

 

At least once a week, Janet Cucharo of Setauket receives a phone call telling her that her auto warranty is about to expire.  The problem is, Cucharo doesn’t have an auto warranty. Neither does her boyfriend or his mother or her father. Yet they all have received the same phone call, with the same recorded voice offering to extend their auto warranties.

People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers 623-238-6228 and 408-587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists trying to steal your personal information and identity. Other numbers generating these spam identity theft calls include 202-552-1332, cell phones 702-520-1105 and 702-520-9120 and 609-948-0971 and 562-289-8136.

The calls always say roughly the same thing (often leaving automated voicemail), along the lines of: “Your car warranty is expiring. We have notified you several times by mail.”
Cell phone numbers 408-587-2116, 702-520-1105 and 562-289-8136 are owned by Telephone Management (TM) Caller ID, LLC through Digitcom Services Inc., they calim…. “While TM Caller ID, LLC does not make any solicitation calls, we hold our clients to the highest standards and will quickly resolve your complaint” see search results below.
Knowledgeable hackers, some of whom are opening online businesses, can quite easily “mask” Caller ID information. A collection agency, for example, can pay a nominal fee to have their call to a debtor appear in Caller ID as a different name and number (caller-id masking services), in hopes that the recipient will pick up the phone.  

The FTC named Voice Touch Inc. and Transcontinental Warranty Inc., which it called the telemarketer and promoter of the scheme, respectively, in the lawsuits. The agency is seeking injunctions forcing them to return allegedly ill-gotten gains.

Masking requires Private Branch eXchange phone equipment (PBX) which, because of its high cost, used to be owned mainly by businesses. Now individuals can get PBX capabilities for their phone by installing a software program.
The upside of allowing a caller to be “anyone, anywhere, within seconds” is hard to see. One commercial telephone masking company, Star38, calls itself Stealth Telecom (www.star38.com). The company says its services are not available to the public due to privacy and security issues. Yet barriers to accessing the service seem virtually nonexistent. In fact, another company named Camophone (www.camophone.com ) offers masking services to anyone for a small fee. Ironically, the Caller ID “spoofers” gain more privacy and security through the masking game while the public gets less.

 Telephone Management Caller ID, L.L.C.
 2331 SW 5th Avenue
 Portland  OR, Oregon 97201
 United States

It is owned by:
    Accuardi, Fred  
    Telephone Management Caller ID, L.L.C.
    2331 SW 5th Avenue
    Portland  OR, Oregon 97201
    United States
    (503) 223-1719      Fax — (503) 296-2500

 

 

 

 

 

(702) 520-1105 is CELLULAR number
Phone Company:	DIGITCOM SERVICES, INC.
Location:	LAS VEGAS, NV
Local Calling Area:	Pahrump NV (southern NV, including Sprint’s Centel Las Vegas)

 

Information Found for 702-520-1105

Customer Owned DID’s

Number 702-520-1105 is being used by Telephone Management Caller ID, LLC
EMAIL:	dnc@tmcallerid.com
PHONE:	866-225-1956
FAX:	503-296-2500

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Though both her home and cell phone numbers are on the federal “Do Not Call” list, Cucharo, 52, still receives the recorded solicitations. And, she said, so far she hasn’t been able to stop them – even when the recording offers to take her off the list if she presses the number 2 button.