Chicago Class Action Seeks to Stop Debt-Relief Company’s Robocalls
Advocate Debt Relief engages in campaigns that market debt settlement services to consumers using telemarketing calls involving prerecorded messages, “despite not having the requisite consent to contact those individuals,” plaintiff Jorge Rojas’ class action alleged Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-16752) in U.S.…
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District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. Since telemarketing campaigns “use technology capable of generating thousands of similar calls per day,” Rojas sues “on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other persons who received similar calls,” it said. The Illinois resident and members of the class were harmed “because their privacy has been violated and they were subjected to annoying and harassing calls and text messages that constitute a nuisance,” it added.