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\"\"Last week, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced a civil enforcement action against several corporate and individual defendants for alleged violations of the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule. (TSR).<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules violations are in connection with telemarketing campaigns that have illegally bombarded American consumers with millions of robocalls, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, defendant telecommunications service companies Stratics Networks, Inc. and Netlatitude Inc., along with defendant Kurt Hannigan, Netlatitude\u2019s president, violated the TSR by providing substantial assistance and support in the form of technological services to telemarketers that unlawfully called consumers with robocalls delivering prerecorded marketing messages, called numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry, and failed to truthfully identify the seller of the goods and services being marketed. <\/span><\/p>\n

These alleged robocalls include numerous \u201cringless voicemails\u201d delivered to consumers without making their phones ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"red<\/a>The complaint also brings claims against several additional defendants that allegedly used Stratics Networks, Inc.\u2019s ringless voicemail platform to illegally telemarket credit-card debt relief services, officials allege.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the complaint, defendants Tek Ventures, LLC (also doing business as Provident Solutions), Atlas Marketing Partners, Inc., Atlas Investment Ventures, LLC, Eric Petersen and Todd DiRoberto (who are co-owners of those three companies), Kasm, and Kenan Azzeh (owner and director of Kasm) violated the FTC Act by misrepresenting the terms and outcomes of their debt relief services. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"business,Officials stated that these defendants also violated the TSR by failing to clearly and truthfully identify the seller of their services.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, this is done by calling consumers with prerecorded messages without obtaining their consent. <\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint also alleges that defendants Tek Ventures, LLC, Atlas Marketing Partners, Inc., Atlas Investment Ventures, LLC, Eric Petersen, Todd DiRoberto, and two additional defendants \u2013 Ace Business Solutions LLC and its owner and director Sandra Barnes \u2013 violated the TSR by requesting and receiving payments from their debt relief customers before renegotiating or otherwise altering the terms of those customers\u2019 debts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint seeks a permanent injunction to prohibit the defendants from future violations, as well as monetary civil penalties and relief to redress injury caused to consumers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two defendants in this action, Kasm and its owner and director Kenan Azzeh, have agreed to entry of a court order that resolves the claims against them. <\/span><\/p>\n

The stipulated order, if entered by the court, would prohibit these defendants from further violations and impose a monetary judgment of $3,380,000, suspended to $7,500 due to their limited ability to pay.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Justice is committed to stopping individuals and companies from making illegal robocalls and peddling predatory debt relief services,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division. \u201cWe will continue to work with the FTC to enforce the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule against those who use misleading sales tactics to prey on consumers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis case targets the ecosystem of companies who perpetrate illegal telemarketing to cheat American consumers who are struggling financially,\u201d said Director Samuel Levine of the FTC\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection. \u201cThe FTC will continue to take aggressive action to protect consumers from the scourge of illegal robocalls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Trial Attorney Daniel K. Crane-Hirsch and Trial Attorneys Matthew A. Robinson and Zachary A. Dietert of the Civil Division\u2019s Consumer Protection Branch, in conjunction with staff at the FTC\u2019s Division of Marketing Practices, are prosecuting the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about the Consumer Protection Branch and its enforcement efforts, visit its website at\u00a0https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/civil\/consumer-protection-branch<\/a>. For more information about the FTC, visit its website at\u00a0https:\/\/www.FTC.gov<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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