Spam Texts
Pop star Rihanna’s clothing line Savage X Fenty was hit with a class action accusing the company of sending unsolicited text messages advertising women’s lingerie from an automated phone system.
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Justices Struggle to Measure Facebook Texts Against Outdated Spam Law
Justice Clarence Thomas voiced annoyance Tuesday at a case that seeks to update a 1990s-era law targeting and prohibiting robotic prerecorded calls so that text messages are also covered.
Read moreUS Seeks $225M Fine for Pair Who Made 1 Billion Robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers.
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Robocallers Stumble in High Court Bid for Cellphone Access
A techno-gaffe from Justice Stephen Breyer closed the circle Wednesday as the Supreme Court ended its first week of remote arguments with little sympathy for political consultants hampered by the federal ban on robocalling cellphones.
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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants will pay more than $3 million, which includes $1 million in attorney’s fees, to settle a federal class action accusing it of sending spam text messages.
Read moreBogus!
The FTC sued Career Education Corp., American Intercontinental University, AIU Online, Marlin Acquisition Corp., Colorado Technical University, and Colorado Tech. Inc. in federal court, claiming they pose as military recruiters to deceive potential students into divulging their contact information, and then contact people with telemarketing calls even if they are on the do not call registry.
Read moreSpam Case Not Ready for Prime Time, Justices Say
The Supreme Court punted Thursday in a case where a chiropractic office that was faxed an advertisement for the Physicians’ Desk Reference, a staple of most medical offices, brought a class action decrying the message as spam.
Read moreRalph Lauren Spam
A federal judge advanced a class action that says Ralph Lauren sent someone 188 text messages without his consent.
Read moreStop Daddy
A federal judge certified a class of people who received telemarketing calls on their cellphones from GoDaddy.com from Nov. 4, 2014 through Oct. 19, 2016.
Read moreEducational Testing Service
A federal judge refused to dismiss class claims that the Educational Testing Service sent 17,000 fax ads, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Read moreRalph Reed
A federal class action accuses Ralph Reed and his Faith and Freedom Coalition of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by bombarding thousands of people’s cellphones with spam messages without consent.
Read moreDo Not Call
A federal judge Tuesday confirmed an award of $42,590 against Results National LLC for 28 willful violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Read moreRussian National Pleads Guilty to Hacking in Federal Court
A Russian national out of St. Petersburg, thought to be the ringleader of a global hacking operation, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to operating a vast network of computers to distribute thousands of spam emails, steal login credentials and install malicious software.
Read moreSpain Extradites Suspect Thought to Be Spam Kingpin to US
Spain says it has extradited to the United States a Russian citizen who is suspected of being one the world’s most notorious spammers.
Read moreTwitter Class Dismissed
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice Tuesday a class action that accused Twitter of spamming nonusers.
Read moreSpam-Removal Service Sells Users’ Emails, Class Says
UnrollMe, a supposedly free service that promises to rid users’ email inboxes of junk and unsubscribe them from spam lists, is actually mining user emails for valuable data that it then sells to the highest bidder, according to a federal class action filed Wednesday.
Read moreRussian Accused of Running Spam Ring Is Indicted in US
A federal grand jury in Connecticut indicted Russian national Peter Yuryevich Levashov on eight counts of fraud, conspiracy and identity theft Friday, over his role in the Kelihos botnet that prosecutors say Levashov helped infect with malicious software.
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