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Verizon customers contacted using illegal autodialer

Posted: 26 Feb 2009, 20:05, by John V.

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Verizon customers contacted using illegal autodialer

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Don’t you hate it when your cell phone starts to ring and you accept the call to only find some prerecorded message play? This may not happen that much, but it’s become a problem for quite a few Verizon Wireless customers. It seems as though Feature Films for Families Inc. created a prerecorded voice message advertising the upcoming movie “The Velveteen Rabbit” to Verizon Wireless customers and employees. The lawsuit filed by Verizon is aiming to halt the illegal use of an autodialer which made 11,000 calls at an average of one call per 0.32 seconds during one hour on February 13. There were a total of 500,000 calls made by the telemarketing company. Under the FTC Protection Act, autodialers are deemed illegal when used to call mobile phone numbers. So in the mean time, Verizon is filing an additional preliminary injunction against the defendants to stop the phone calls. So if you receive a call about an upcoming movie, your best bet is to quickly press that end button.

via Mobileburn

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1. T-Money3000 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:42 0 0

Had a customer ask me about this b4.... nice to know VZW is doing something about it.

2. nick315 posted on 27 Feb 2009, 06:19 0 0

Does this mean we are able to cancel our Verizon Wireless contract?

3. Vitamins4022 (unregistered) posted on 27 Feb 2009, 06:29 0 0

woah! how did you get that from this article?

6. arkanpyra posted on 01 Mar 2009, 15:58 0 0

Nick...your comment shows the world just how idiotic you are.

7. PapaJay224 posted on 02 Mar 2009, 13:44 0 0

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH VERIZON OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT SOMEONE USED OUR DIALING LIST TO ADVERTISE....Contract Junkie!

4. piratejb posted on 27 Feb 2009, 13:38 0 0

the real question is how this company got all these number?

5. ICanAffordVZW posted on 27 Feb 2009, 18:11 0 0

good question. They called VZW employees on their "concession" and demo lines...every employee in my store was contacted at least once...

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