Wrong number calls
Synchrony Bank Prerecorded Voices Calls TCPA Settlement
Synchrony Bank is putting up $2.6 million to settle a class action alleging it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The complaint alleged it placed calls to consumers, without their prior express written consent, that used an artificial or prerecorded voice. Read more
DirecTV Wrong-Number Collection Calls TCPA Settlement
DirecTV is spending $17 million to settle a class action based on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The complaint alleged that DirecTV’s four debt collection agencies (Credit Management, LP, iQor, Inc., AFNI, Inc., and Enhanced Recovery Company, Inc.) made calls using prerecorded messages to the cell phones of individuals who were not DirecTV customers Read more
Medicredit Wrong Number Collection Calls TCPA Settlement
Medicredit, Inc. is settling a class action for just under $2 million, alleging it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The complaint claims that it placed collection calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice to the cell phones of consumers who did not have accounts in collections with Medicredit. More than 300,000 numbers were Read more
Hertz Wrong or Reassigned Number Calls TCPA Class Action
The Hertz Corporation is known for its vehicle rentals. But the complaint for this class action alleges that it has been making repeated robocalls to consumer cell phone numbers, which appear to be wrong or reassigned numbers. The complaint alleges these calls violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Read more
Verizon Wireless Wrong-Party Collection Calls TCPA Settlement
Cellco Partnership, the defendant in this case, does business as Verizon Wireless. It is now settling a class action alleging that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by making prerecorded collection calls to consumer cell phones without the owners’ prior express written consent. Read more
Santander Consumer 145 Calls to Wrong Number TCPA Class Action
Santander Consumer USA, Inc. makes auto loans, and it also makes telephone calls trying to collect amounts owed on auto loans. The complaint for this class action alleges that Santander sometimes also calls wrong numbers, “badgering” people about accounts that do not belong to them, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Read more
Debt Collector CMRE Violates Both TCPA and FDCPA Class Action
Automated debt collection calls may be annoying, but they’re much more annoying when they’re about someone else’s debt. The complaint for this class action alleges that CMRE Financial Services, Inc. places repeated automated calls to consumers, even after being told the calls are reaching the wrong people. The complaint claims CMRE is violating both the Read more
Virtuoso Sourcing Group Wrong-Number Robo-Calls TCPA Class Action
The complaint for this class action alleges that Virtuoso Sourcing Group, LLC (VSG) is one more in the long list of companies making illegal calls to consumers, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). At issue are wrong-number autodialed calls made to consumer cells phones. Read more
Comenity Bank Debt Calls to Friends and Relatives TCPA Class Action
According to the complaint for this class action, Comenity Bank “bears the dubious distinction of perhaps being the most abusive robocalling debt collector in the country.” The complaint brings suit not under debt collection laws but primarily under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Read more
Comenity Bank 700 Calls at One Month in Arrears TCPA Class Action
The complaint begins by asserting, “Comenity remains one of, if the not the most abusive, robodialer in the country.” It is referring to Comenity Bank, which it claims “blasted Plaintiff’s cellular telephone with over 379 calls … in the span of two months” for an account that it claims was only one month delinquent. The Read more