On Hold With Earthlink
It’s been 15 minutes now. Nothing unusual. Getting to this point was really, really hard. I went through seven (7) different phone routing trees before I finally just started hitting 0 and finally got put on hold. I’m not even calling Earthlink technical support because I have a problem with my service (Earthlink provides me [...]
TCPA Case settles
I haven’t mentioned this in this space before, but in a previous work incarnation I was a legal assistant. I’m not anymore, but I put that training to good use recently. For most of the time that I’ve lived in Gatesville we’ve gotten calls that use a pre-recorded message hawking Dish Network satellite service. By [...]
Congratulations Charles Chase
USA Today reports that a spammer’s car has been won by AOL user Charles Chase. Best quote in the article: Randall Boe, executive vice president and general counsel of AOL, said the lawsuit sends spammers the message that “we may go after not only your spam tools, but your spam toys as well — houses, [...]
Lawsuits
Of note last week are three lawsuits. Federal Trade Commission v. Phoenix Avatar, LLC doing business as Avatar Nutrition, DJL, LLC, Daniel J. Lin, Mark M. Sadek, James Lin, and Christopher M. Chung doing business as A I T Herbal Marketing Federal Trade Commission v. Global Web Promotions Pty Ltd., Michael John Anthony Van Essen, [...]
