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Hello, we have been trying to reach you regarding your car's extendet warrenty

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a reference to spam callers. For a few years, right around when everyone was realizing they shouldn't answer the phone for unknown callers, it was really common to get calls that, if you picked up, would play a pre-recorded message along the lines of "Hello! We've been trying to get in touch with you regarding your car's extended warranty. You may be entitled to money and blowjobs, and if your warranty expires, your hair will fall out and your car will be repossessed. To speak to a representative, press 1. Por habla Esperanto, marqué νούμερο 二."

If you pressed 1, you would ostensibly be connected to a high-pressure sales rep trying to sell you a worthless maintenance contract. Nobody is really certain, though, because despite hundreds of millions of people receiving twelve of these calls each day, not one person every stayed on the line longer than "regarding..." In fact, my memory on the end of that message might be a fabrication, because I don't think I ever heard it.