TCPA Class Action Calls Out Apptness as a ‘Major Participant’ in Spam Texts
Americans receive billions of spam text messages every year, and Apptness Media Group, a compendium of digital marketers, “is a major participant in this spam,” alleged plaintiff Cindy Luchinske’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00267) in U.S.…
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District Court for Eastern Washington in Spokane. Apptness “bombards unsuspecting consumers” nationally, including Luchinske, “with annoying automated texts attempting to lure consumers to their own websites,” it said. Its campaigns are an effort to collect consumers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and other personal contact information so it can sell “that same information to other companies, as well as solicit products and services on these same websites,” it said. Luchinske’s and her class members’ privacy and phones “have been invaded by relentless automated telemarketing texts from Apptness,” it said. The Stevens County, Washington resident, and her class members, “have tried to eliminate the harassment and invasion of their privacy from unauthorized calls” by listing their numbers on the national do not call registry, “but even that did not work,” it said. Apptness “simply continues to blast these same illegal telemarketing texts while hiding its identity, without caring if consent was obtained,” or if the recipients’ numbers were on the DNC registry, it said.