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May 23rd, 2023 - 2:34 pm § in Law and Courts

49 states sue VoIP provider for scam robocalls

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 alleg[...]

November 23rd, 2014 - 5:46 pm § in Misc.

Why I’ll never buy a subscription to the Seattle Times

Update (March 31, 2015): It now appears this subscription solicitation was likely a scam. An AOL news story published today says 5 state attorneys general have “filed lawsuits intended to shut down a massive alleged newspaper and magazine subscription scam that solicited millions of consumers[...]