Ahh, just filed a complaint with the FCC. "ec - 29 Dec 2007" was right. They can't legally do this! I get calls at work, my cell, wifes cell and at home. There are also a number of people at my work with the same issues.
Thanks for the phone number and the appropriate links!
For some reason, car warranty telemarketing scams are very hot right now. The calls are almost always randomly dialed, so the telemarketer has no idea whether you have a new car under warranty or an old car or if you even have a car. The message they call with makes it sound like your car warranty is about to expire; this is just a scare tactic aimed at tricking into "buying" a new car warranty and giving them your credit card number (which is what they are really after.)
I'm familiar with the car warranty scam because earlier this summer I was repeatedly slammed with prerecorded telemarketing calls trying to sell car warranties. The message on the recording made it sound extremely urgent and told me this was my "last notice" and that my car warranty is about to expire.
Regarding the calls you're receiving: if they are prerecorded messages, then they are illegal. The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) specifically forbids telemarketers from making prerecorded calls to anyone who has not given permission to receive such calls. If these were unauthorized prerecorded telemarketing calls, you can take your revenge by reporting each call online to the Federal Communications Commission (which enforces the TCPA.) It just takes a few minutes to fill out the form and here's the link to do that: https://esupport.fcc.gov/form1088/consumer.do The more information you can give in your complaint, the better. So try to note the date and time of each call and all the information contained on the Caller ID if you have that service. (After I filed several reports with the FCC regarding the non-stop illegal telemarketing calls I received, the calls stopped altogether a couple weeks later.)
And just for good measure, you may want to also file a complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission here: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
Finally, most consumers don't realize that the TCPA also provides an avenue for them to pursue monetary damages against the offending telemarketer to the tune of $500 per call. Of course, that involves going to court but it's not as difficult as it sounds. I believe that each time the telemarketer makes the call, they could be subject to paying $500 in damages. (In other words, if they call you 5 times, they could be liable for $2,500 in damages paid to you.) Check out this link to the website of a lawyer who was startled awake in the early morning hours by an unauthorized prerecorded telemarketing call: http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html He tells the detailed story of how he put the provisions of the TCPA to work against a lawbreaking telemarketer.