Do-not-call crackdowns
Attorney General Steve Carter continues to crack down on those violating the state’s do-not-call list, most recently filing suit against five Florida companies. Here’s portions of the press release from his office:
Five Florida businesses and at least three individuals are being sued for making and orchestrating hundreds of illegal sales calls to citizens registered on Indiana’s Do Not Call list announced Attorney General Steve Carter today. The unsolicited, pre-recorded telemarketing calls promoted vacation packages and were either from “Michelle” with Vacation Depot or USA Travel and “Jessica” with Premier Travel.
There are more than 670 complaints filed against “USA Travel”, “Vacation Depot”, “Premier Travel” and “Gold Coast Resorts”, all fictitious business names used by the defendants Gome Enterprise, Inc., Funco Resorts Inc., Total Marketing Group Inc., JNS Design Group, Inc., Zfone Voip, Inc., Anthony Digiacomo (Dee-jack-o-mo), Enrique Gomis, Mikael Schultz, and other unnamed defendants. The state alleges the defendants violated the state’s Do Not Call law and federal Telephone Consumer Protection law from July 2004 to the present.
This is the second lawsuit filed against a company for violating the state’s Do Not Call law. Last August, a Madison County Court ordered an Anderson man to pay $100,000 for violations of the law. The attorney general’s office filed this first lawsuit in May after Gabrial Gouvas failed to comply with the law, and refused to enter into a negotiated settlement for complaints the office received.
