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Feeling frustrated by robocalls on your cellphone? Imagine being able to make the company behind the automatic dialing pay you $500 or more per call! One man did it and here’s his story.
Chester Moore of West Virginia was never a Dish Network customer. But he had a cellphone number that was previously owned by a customer who did owe money to the satellite company.
That little discrepancy didn’t stop Dish from robocalling Chester’s phone an alleged 7 or 8 times a week for 8 months in 2012. On 2 separate occassions, Chester told Dish representatives that he wasn’t their man. Each time he was promised the automated debt collection dialing would stop. But it never did.
After a total of 31 calls, Chester got so angry he sued Dish. Now a judge has awarded Chester $22,500 for “emotional distress, frustration, worry, anger and/or loss of capacity to enjoy life,”
That’s $500 for 24 calls before Chester told them to stop it -and- $1,500 for each of 7 calls after he gave them fair warning!
The robocalls were deemed “in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits non-emergency auto dials to cell-phone customers who have not given prior consent,” according to The New York Post.
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If you legitimately owe a debt, you have specific rights under federal law. Here are a few pointers to keep in mind when dealing with collectors:
This post was last modified on March 22, 2017 1:54 pm
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