Company tricked Pa. residents into giving their phone numbers for robocalls: AG lawsuit

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The sale of the phone numbers led to millions of unauthorized calls, the AG's office said.

Jonathan Bergmueller | jbergmueller@pennlive.comNearly everyone’s received a robocall like that. And such marketing calls are illegal if you asked to opt out of them.

The lawsuit alleges Fluent and its subsidiaries collected personal information like telephone numbers and sold them to telemarketing companies, who then placed robocalls to residents. Fluent received customers’ information when they registered for promotional offers, like gift cards for Amazon and Walmart.

From 2018 to 2021, more than 4.2 million Pennsylvania residents registered their information on one of Fluent’s websites.

 

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