TCPA Defendant Claims It’s Not the Company Plaintiff Is ‘Looking For’
Defendant Secure IP Telecom (SIPT), in an unusual single-page answer to plaintiff Brandon Luna’s May 2 Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action (see 2305030002), denied it’s the company that inundated Luna with prerecorded telemarketing calls to promote its America Voice…
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brand. SIPT has never contacted Luna, nor did it ever send him prerecorded messages “as stated in the details of the suit,” SIPT’s counsel, Andrew Shamis of Shamis & Gentile in Miami, wrote U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston in an undated letter posted Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-01630). SIPT also never owned the “originating” phone number, 631-400-3100, that Luna’s complaint cited as the source of the annoying calls, said the letter: “We are not the America Voice company you are looking for.”