Avid Telecom, which provides Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, is being sued by “nearly every attorney general in the country” for facilitating billions of robocalls, many of which were scams, CNBC reported on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 (read story here).
The legal complaint alleges Avid Telecom “would sell phone numbers, data and dialing software that enabled customers to make mass robocalls” and “spoof the area codes of their calls to match those of their recipients,” CNBC said, adding, “Calls allegedly facilitated by Avid included scams about the Social Security Administration, Medicare, auto warranties, Amazon, credit card interest rate reduction and more.”
It also accuses the company of ignoring FCC warnings about the calls, 7.5 billion of which targeted names on the national Do Not Call Registry. If maximum fines were imposed, the company could owe $7.5 trillion of penalties.
Maybe putting this outfit out of business will reduce the volume of robocalls plaguing us. We can hope, can’t we?