Solar Company Violates TCPA by Phoning Numbers on DNC Registry: Class Action
Consider Solar is a company that generates leads on behalf of various solar companies, and it relies on illegal telemarketing to do so, alleged a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Monday (docket 1:24-cv-01100) in U.S. District Court for Eastern…
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Virginia. Consider Solar violates the TCPA by making telemarketing calls to numbers on the national do not call registry and by using artificial or prerecorded voice messages to call residential phone numbers without consent, said the complaint. David Tom has a residential copper landline and a residential cellphone number that he personally listed on the national DNC registry in 2003, it said. The Florida resident nevertheless received at least three illegal prerecorded calls from Consider Solar, it said. All the calls came from the same caller ID, 571-496-7202, a number that’s associated with Consider Solar, it said: “This number has been flagged as a solar scam by multiple call reporting services, and reflect at least 3,404 calls to those services’ subscribers.” As a result of the calls, Tom was able to affirmatively identify the caller as Alfonso Torres, a Consider Solar employee, said the complaint. Torres emailed the plaintiff a Q&A video and attempted to sell him solar panels, it said. After Tom’s counsel contacted Consider Solar, the company “deleted and therefore spoliated this video evidence,” it said. Tom and members of the classes have been harmed by the company’s acts “because their privacy has been violated, they were annoyed and harassed, and, in some instances, they were charged for incoming calls,” said the complaint.