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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Ind. Law - More on: AG announces filing suit to stop illegal fax blaster
Recall this ILB entry from August 19th, where the AG announced he was filing suit "seeking more than $1.5 million in civil damages from a New Jersey-based company accused of breaking Indiana’s Do Not Fax law."
Here is a story published yesterday in NJ Biz ("All business, all New Jersey") that reports:
An Englishtown company's effort to generate mortgage leads was a bit too ambitious, according to a lawsuit filed by the Indiana state attorney general's office against the firm.EZ Precious Metals Group Inc., which does business as EZPMG and advertises itself as a "lead generation specialist," violated Indiana’s law against sending unsolicited faxes when it sent more than 1,000 faxes to Indiana residents advertising mortgage services, the state's Attorney General Steve Carter said in an announcement. His office is awaiting a response from the company, a Carter spokeswoman told NJBIZ today.
The lawsuit, which was announced Aug. 18, was filed in Indiana’s St. Joseph County Court. It asks the court to halt EZPMG’s faxing activities in the state, and seeks civil penalties of up to $1,500 per violation against the company and its president, Kenneth B. Elias. The suit also seeks $10,000 for the company’s alleged failure to obtain a certificate of authority from Indiana to do business within the state. EZPMG did not return a reporter’s call seeking comment.
"For each fax brought to our attention, it is likely there were hundreds more that were unreported and caused headaches for people across the state,” Carter said on Aug. 18 in an Indiana state news release. “We have heard from citizens in 51 counties who were supplementing the advertising costs of this East Coast company thousands of miles away. One person in Pulaski County received as many as 200 faxes alone.”
The company had previously been sued by at least two clients in other states for similar alleged violations. At least one of those suits was dismissed.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 28, 2008 09:54 AM
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