San Diego Plaintiff Sues to Stop Debt-Relief Firm From Calling and Texting
San Diego resident Anton Ewing filed suit to stop Coastal Debt Solutions, a debt-relief company, from violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule by sending him telemarketing text messages and calling him with prerecorded artificial voice…
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messages without his prior express consent, according to his pro se complaint Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-02261) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego. The hardware and software the defendant uses can store or produce numbers “using a random or sequential number generator, and to dial such numbers, en masse, in an automated fashion without human intervention,” said Ewing’s complaint. Its automated dialing equipment includes features “substantially similar” to a predictive dialer in that it’s “capable of sending numerous text messages and calls simultaneously, without human intervention,” it said. Ewing estimates he received at least one dozen calls or texts from the defendant. He listed his cellphone number on the national do not call registry in February 2012 “for the express purpose that he would not receive unsolicited calls or text messages,” said his complaint. He has gone even further “to pay for various web pages informing the world of telemarketers to not call him or else they will be sued,” it said. Ewing also “expressly informed” more than 100 TCPA defense attorneys in writing across the U.S. “to inform their clients to not call him for solicitation,” it said.