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Credit Union Accused of Placing Unlawful Calls to Wrong Recipient

Space Coast Credit Union “routinely violated” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by placing non-emergency calls to consumers’ cellphone numbers without their “prior express consent,” using an artificial or prerecorded voice, alleged Broward County, Florida, plaintiff Renate Moore’s class action Thursday…

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(docket 0:23-cv-60659) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale. Moore estimates Space Coast left her at least 15 prerecorded voice mails in the past year, it said. It also sent her a text message Feb. 17 referencing a debit card ending in 2734, it said. Moore never had an account with Space Coast, doesn’t own such a debit card, and she believes its calls and voice messages were intended for a person named Marie, it said. Moore alleges she suffered “actual harm” through an invasion of her privacy because she was forced “to spend time trying to determine who the calls were from and how to get them to stop,” it said.