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Mortgage Lender 'Casts Marketing Net Too Wide,' Says TCPA Complaint

Lending3 “casts its marketing net too wide,” said plaintiff Lucine Trim, in a Thursday class action (docket 8:23-cv-00922) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in Santa Ana. Trim alleges the mortgage lender violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by…

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placing calls to individuals on the do not call registry. Trim, a resident of North Hollywood, California, alleges Lending3's “wide scale telemarketing campaign” repeatedly makes unsolicited calls using an automatic telephone dialing system to consumers’ landline and cellular phones without prior consent. Trim received three calls from a telemarketer representing Lending3 between Dec. 4, 2019 and March 22, 2021, said the complaint. Trim doesn’t have a relationship with Lending3, never provided her phone number to the company and never requested that the company call her, she said. She seeks an award of $500 for each violation, plus attorneys’ fees and legal costs.