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By Dorothy Fitch

Those Pesky Car Warranty Calls

By Kurt Jefferson, Editor, Central Kentucky Computer Society

Nearly every other day, I receive an obnoxious voice Now, NPR has dissected the calls and given us an inside
mail: Your car warranty has expired. This is the final call. look at what's really going on.
If you don't respond now, you will get no extended

warranty coverage.
It turns out if you pay for this service, it covers very little,
according to NPR's Planet Money. If you paid a monthly
fee, the company claimed to cover your car bumper to
Those calls go to my iPhone's voice mail without bother-
ing me because the robocall slayer software known as bumper. But it turns out the warranty was worth about as
Nomorobo recognizes this is snake oil and keeps my much as the paper it was written on. Furthermore, this
phone from ringing. was all promoted in a very deceptive way, says the NPR
article.
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Cyber Awareness Bulletin 1 October 2021