Marketer Sued for Do-Not-Call Violation
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The Federal Trade Commission, seeking its first civil penalties against a telemarketer for violating the federal do-not-call list, has sued a Las Vegas firm, saying it called more than 300,000 numbers on the registry to sell time-share properties. -The Washington Post
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The suit seeks $1 billion in damages and an injunction against further violations.
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Today the Supreme Court declined to rule that the National Do Not Call Registry violates telemarketers&#39; rights to commercial free speech.
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In a lawsuit, the commission alleges that two companies engaged in unfair acts and practices with their marketing and software.
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Minnesota's attorney general yesterday sued two subsidiaries of Capital One Financial Corp., contending that their "No Hassle" credit card ads were false, deceptive and misleading because they erroneously gave consumers the perception that their "fixed" interest rates would never increase.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower-court ruling that telemarketers&#39; rights to free speech are not violated by the government&#39;s nationwide do-not-call list.
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Research in Motion (RIM) has sued Samsung, claiming that Samsung&#8217;s BlackJack smartphone violates the BlackBerry trademark.
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon Wireless Inc. has sued Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) private investigators for faking their identities to obtain other people's phone records, a practice known as "pretexting." In a case filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Verizon asked a judge to award it damage payments and to block the defendants from gaining any more records. Verizon said it did not know the investigators' identities, but defined them as "John and Jane Does" who were retained by HP in 2005 and 2006 to investigate confidential information leaks from HP's board of directors, according to the lawsuit. Those people obtained private information about Verizon Wireless customers by using pretexting calls to gain access to the company's protected computers and data storage facilities. They then sold that information. Both actions violate the national Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Verizon said. The scandal has already forcedÂ Patricia Dunn to resign as HP board chairman, andÂ sparked investigations by the California attorney general and the U.S. House of Representatives. In court papers, Verizon described how a woman called Verizon customer service on May 17, 2005, asking to see phone records for an HP director. She called back three days later, arranging to block text messages to that phone and logging on to the person's online account. Then, on Feb. 1, 2006, someone called Verizon customer service again, asking for the number of a second phone on that account. Later that day, the person logged into the account again and changed the password, this time from a computer with a different IP (Internet Protocol) address. The next day, someone called Verizon and asked to see call records of the director's spouse. Verizon workers grew suspicious and placed a warning on the account. Someone called again on March 1, offered the spouse's Social Security number and asked for the mobile phone number. Already wary, Verizon workers called the mobile phone and found that the customer's voicemail did not match the caller's voice. When someone tried again to access the records on March 14, Verizon workers refused. Verizon hopes the lawsuit will help restore its customers' confidence in the security of their records, saying that its reputation has been harmed by the spying. "Verizon goes to great lengths to protect confidential customer information," including training its customer service representatives to identify the schemes used by illegal data brokers, the suit said. Despite those precautions, the HP investigators used "fraud, trickery and deceit" by making pretexting calls to Verizon representatives to gain unauthorized online account access, the suit alleges. Verizon said it will update the suit once it learns their identities. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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SUPREME COURT - The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.
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The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court decision upholding the Federal Trade Commission&#39;s imposition of a national do not call registry.
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Millions at stake, but for whom? A US consumer lobby group has won an appeal to sue Nextel over "text messages spam" sent to customers â three years ago.â¦
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Minnesota&#39;s attorney general yesterday sued two subsidiaries of Capital One Financial Corp., contending that their &quot;No Hassle&quot; credit card ads were false, deceptive and misleading because
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In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27.
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Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian maker of telecom equipment, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Vonage Â claiming that it violated nine patents related to Internet phone services and related features such as 911 and 411 calling and click to call.
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A man has sued Campbell Soup Co. and an advertising firm over an ad that he claims misappropriated his late father's voice &#151; a deep baritone that long served as the dramatic voice of NFL Films.
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The government is seeking penalties against a Nevada-based telemarketing group for alleged violations of the federal do-not-call registry, making calls to more than 300,000 people whose numbers were on the list.
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SAN FRANCISCO - An assistant manager at a Costco store filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the retailer of not promoting her because she&#39;s a woman.