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Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam
Automated phone spam is a growing plague for anyone with a telephone, landline or cell.
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that they're trying to get court approval to take enforcement action against various telecommunications companies for their alleged role in facilitating robocalls.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time DOJ has taken *any* enforcement action against telecoms over robocalls.
About time. Go read the announcement.
The filing accuses certain telecoms of facilitating robocallls across their networks, and says the losses to robocall scam victims total up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
DOJ is focusing on a set of companies that includes two groups originating in India, and operating out of residential addresses in New York and Arizona, said Jody Hunt, Assistant Attorney General for the departments civil division.
From CNBC's reporting:
Read the restThe groups were responsible for hundreds of millions of calls per month, Hunt said. The Justice Department is seeking court approval to stop the organizations from making further calls, he said. The companies include two Arizona-based companies and three Long Island, N.Y.-based companies, all of which were operated out of residential addresses in those states, according to the press conference.
The Arizona defendants are TollFreeDeals.com, SIP Retail and their owner-operators, Nicholas Palumbo and Natasha Palumbo of Scottsdale. The New York defendants are Global Voicecom Inc., Global Telecommunication Services Inc., KAT Telecom Inc. and their owner-operator Jon Kahen of Great Neck, N.Y. The defendant companies and individuals could not immediately be reached for comment.
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