For what it is worth, the calls about the car warranties that I get seem to be from the same people as the "important calls about your credit card" and I think the rug cleaning services calls from a year or 2 ago. The phone numbers that I get on my caller ID are all from Florida. At the very least, they violate the Do Not Call Laws. I would love for someone to follow up on these.
Mar. 13 2009 11:51 AM
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Josh
from Astoria, NY
Thanks, Brian, for bringing up the phone calls about the expiring car warranties. I get these calls several times a week on my cell phone. It's definitely an annoyance, and costs me money as I get these calls on my cell phone. These calls never come from the same phone # so there's no real way of tracing the calls. If you can follow up in a future episode, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.
Thanks.
Mar. 13 2009 11:46 AM
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nat
from brooklyn
In 2002, I worked for ACORN doing educational work in Bed-Stuy, and Ocean Hill on the predatory lending problems in that neighborhood. Those neighborhoods were littered with fliers and circulars about selling your house for cash, and refinancing homes. This was red lining morphing in to the foreclosure crises.
Why is the Brooklyn DA so late to the game on this one, if community groups saw the problem in neighborhoods seven years ago, how is it that the DA's office had to wait for catastrophe rather than just a problem.
Mar. 13 2009 11:34 AM
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For what it is worth, the calls about the car warranties that I get seem to be from the same people as the "important calls about your credit card" and I think the rug cleaning services calls from a year or 2 ago. The phone numbers that I get on my caller ID are all from Florida. At the very least, they violate the Do Not Call Laws. I would love for someone to follow up on these.
Thanks, Brian, for bringing up the phone calls about the expiring car warranties. I get these calls several times a week on my cell phone. It's definitely an annoyance, and costs me money as I get these calls on my cell phone. These calls never come from the same phone # so there's no real way of tracing the calls. If you can follow up in a future episode, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.
Thanks.
In 2002, I worked for ACORN doing educational work in Bed-Stuy, and Ocean Hill on the predatory lending problems in that neighborhood. Those neighborhoods were littered with fliers and circulars about selling your house for cash, and refinancing homes. This was red lining morphing in to the foreclosure crises.
Why is the Brooklyn DA so late to the game on this one, if community groups saw the problem in neighborhoods seven years ago, how is it that the DA's office had to wait for catastrophe rather than just a problem.
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