Car Warranty Robocaller Shut Down by FTC

Serial robocaller Fereidoun "Fred" Khalilian has been banned from telemarketing for life and fined more than $4 million to settle Federal Telecommunications Commission charges he used robocalls to sell consumers bogus auto service contracts.

Khalilian and his company, The Dolce Group Worldwide, LLC, are the latest robocall scam to have its plug pulled under the FTC's ongoing crackdown on deceptive prerecorded telemarketing calls.

The robocall scheme, which did business under the name My Car Solutions, bilked consumers into paying thousands of dollars and led them to believe the company was affiliated with auto dealers and manufacturers and authorized to sell extended auto warranties.