(Boston Orange 編譯) 麻州總檢察長Andrea Joy Campbell和跨黨派檢察長組成的聯盟，今天 (24日) 控告以Avid Telecom之名對外營業的Michael D. Lansky責任有限公司，以及其所有人Michael Lansky和該公司副總裁Stacey S. Reeves。
在2018年12月至2023年1月期間，據稱Avid撥打或安排撥打了超過75億次電話給“全國的別撥打電話名單
( National Do Not Call Registry)”上的電話號碼，違反了《電話消費者保護法》、《電話銷售規則》和其他聯邦和州的電話銷售和消費者法令。其中約有1億0459萬3113通電話是打給麻州的電話號碼。
AG Campbell說，“
機器自動撥打 (Robocalls)
的這些電話不僅很煩人，還可能有害，因為消費者經常被誘騙透露他們的個人或財務信息，”。“我很自豪能夠加入這個由跨黨派檢察長組成的聯盟，對Avid的參與撥打數十億非法機器撥打電話到麻省和全國行為，採取行動。”
Avid在2018年12月至2023年1月間撥打或嘗試撥打超過24.
5億通電話。其中超過90％的電話持續時間不到15秒，這表明它們很可能是機器撥打的電話。此外，Avid幫助製造了數億通使用偽造或無效的呼叫者身份號碼的電話，包括超過840萬多通假冒政府和執法機構以及私人公司的電話。
據稱Avid
Telecom發送或傳送的許多電話，與社會保障局詐騙、醫療保險詐騙、汽車保修詐騙、亞馬遜詐騙、DirecTV詐騙、信用卡利率降低詐騙和就業詐騙等有關。
由美國電信領導，通知電信供應商有已知或疑似非法機器人從其網路撥打電話的企業追蹤組，向Avid電信公司發出過至少329份通知，告訴他們該公司在傳送這些電話。但Avid
Telecom仍繼續進行這些活動。
Avid Telecom是一家網路電話
(VoIP) 服務提供商，出售數據、電話號碼、撥號軟件和/或專業知識，以幫助其客戶大規模的撥打由機器人撥打的電話。據稱它還作為中介商，幫助客戶在全國範圍內發送非法的機器人所撥打電話。
AG CAMPBELL SUES AVID TELECOM FOR ILLEGAL ROBOCALLS
Company Transmitted Over 7.5 Billion Scam Calls to Phone
Numbers on National Do Not Call Registry
BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell,
along with a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general, today sued Michael D.
Lansky, LLC, which does business under the name Avid Telecom, its owner Michael
Lansky, and its vice president Stacey S. Reeves.
Between December 2018 and January 2023, Avid allegedly
initiated and facilitated more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on
the National Do Not Call Registry, violating the Telephone Consumer Protection
Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other federal and state telemarketing
and consumer laws. Approximately 104,593,113 of those calls were to
numbers in Massachusetts.
“Not only are robocalls annoying, but they can be harmful,
as consumers are often tricked into revealing their personal or financial
information,” said AG Campbell. “I am proud to join this bipartisan coalition
of attorneys general to take action against Avid for its role in facilitating
billions of unlawful robocalls in Massachusetts and across the country.”
Avid sent or attempted to transmit more than 24.5 billion
calls between December 2018 and January 2023. More than 90 percent of those
calls lasted less than just 15 seconds, which indicates they were likely
robocalls. Further, Avid helped make hundreds of millions of calls using
spoofed or invalid caller ID numbers, including more than 8.4 million calls
that appeared to be coming from government and law enforcement agencies, as
well as private companies.
Avid Telecom allegedly sent or transmitted calls related to
Social Security Administration scams, Medicare scams, auto warranty scams,
Amazon scams, DirecTV scams, credit card interest rate reduction scams, and
employment scams. Examples of some of these scam calls are available to listen
to here and here.
The US Telecom-led Industry Traceback Group, which notifies
providers about known and suspected illegal robocalls sent across their
networks, sent at least 329 notifications to Avid Telecom that it was
transmitting these calls, but Avid Telecom continued to do so.
Avid Telecom is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
service provider that sells data, phone numbers, dialing software, and/or
expertise to help its customers make mass robocalls. It also serves as an
intermediate provider and allegedly facilitated or helped route illegal
robocalls across the country.
Today’s legal action arises from the nationwide
Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force of 51 bipartisan attorneys
general. The task force is investigating and taking legal action against those
responsible for routing significant volumes of illegal robocall traffic into
and across the United States. The Federal Trade Commission and the Social
Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General provided
investigative assistance in this matter.
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