The warranty on your car is about to expire. This is your last chance...

These calls are incessant. They not only have our home phone number. They also somehow have my cell phone. The calls are for the most part from a Florida number (386-761-4356) and they come almost daily, the same robo recording, despite the fact that our cars warranties are long gone. Hanging up on a recording provides no satisfaction. Being on a no call list is no protection. While knowing that I was not alone, the choice to call the state attorney general's office had not been a threshold that had been crossed, especially given my attitude that getting any government associated entity involved in any aspect of one's life is always a step that eventually causes regret.

Hallelujah. Bloomberg radio reported this morning that the Senate, the U.S. Senate, is taking up a measure to shut down this operation. It's apparently pervasive nationally. I want to think that it will be like one of those cop shows where they take the battering ram to some obscure strip mall office suite and literally smash this operation to pieces.

Now if they could just take on those credit card refinancing calls that come from both Canada and some offshore Caribbean location. They are almost as frequent but at least they don't have our cells yet. With the locale being offshore, they are definitely up to something shady. They may just be social security number fishing expeditions taking advantage of financially stressed folks who naively give whatever information is requested to take advantage of false promises.

Get them too.