FCC’s Pai OKs Call Authentication Plan To Beat Robocalls
May 14, 2018
Law360 (May 14, 2018, 6:13 PM EDT) — Phone call authentication to combat “spoofed” robocalls assuming a fake number is one step closer after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday accepted recommendations from a federal advisory committee for selecting a “governance authority” to implement the authentication framework.
The North American Numbering Council, or NANC, recommended that industry take point on “expeditiously” naming a governance authority to handle implementation of the SHAKEN/STIR framework, according to the announcement from Pai. In it, Pai touted the use of “digital fingerprint[s]” for phone calls to ensure…
March 5, 2018
Law360 (March 5, 2018, 7:27 PM EST) — A Los Angeles man filed a terse proposed class action against iHeartMedia Inc., via one of its radio stations, on Monday in California federal court alleging robocall violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that may have roped in “thousands” of recipients of unwanted calls.
Vahe Messerlian, a Los Angeles County resident, said he received at least one call starting around January of this year from Los Angeles-based iHeart station KOST 103.5, which he said iHeart was doing business as. That phone call, according to the 8-page…
March 1, 2018
The agency plans to vote March 22 on a report and order that would nix National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act reviews when companies want to deploy small cells enabling next-generation mobile service. The move is duly…
February 23, 2018
Law360 (February 23, 2018, 8:24 PM EST) — A Georgia federal court Friday was asked to preliminarily approve JPMorgan Chase Bank NA’s $2.25 million settlement of Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims that the bank autodialed the cellphones of hundreds of thousands of customers after they verbally asked that the calls to stop.
Proposed class representatives Tomeka Barrow and Anthony Diaz’s unopposed motion for approval said that in its efforts since 2012 to collect on mortgage and home equity line of credit accounts, JPMorgan violated the TCPA by calling cellphones without the customers’ consent, via an…
February 23, 2018
Law360 (February 23, 2018, 8:24 PM EST) — A Georgia federal court Friday was asked to preliminarily approve JPMorgan Chase Bank NA’s $2.25 million settlement of Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims that the bank autodialed the cellphones of hundreds of thousands of customers after they verbally asked that the calls to stop.
Proposed class representatives Tomeka Barrow and Anthony Diaz’s unopposed motion for approval said that in its efforts since 2012 to collect on mortgage and home equity line of credit accounts, JPMorgan violated the TCPA by calling cellphones without the customers’ consent, via an…
July 20, 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced two more guilty pleas from men copping to the money laundering end of a massive fraud involving Indian call centers impersonating tax and other officials to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from victims nationwide, bringing the number of guilty pleas to 13.
Texas resident Nilesh Pandya, 54, and Illinois-based Indian national Montu Barot, 30, each pled to a single count of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, according to the announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. The men, among dozens indicted last year, each face up to five years in prison along with restitution to the victims…
April 18, 2017
Law360, New York (April 18, 2017, 4:08 PM EDT) — Macy’s was hit on Monday with a proposed class action that accuses the department store chain of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by harassing customers with constant robocalls to collect on unpaid consumer debts.
Consumer Deborah Clark, in her suit claiming that robocalls are the No. 1 consumer complaint in America today, said that Macy’s Credit and Customer Services Inc. has used an automatic telephone dialing system with a prerecorded voice, as stipulated by TCPA guidelines about unwanted calls, to phone her cellphone number approximately…