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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the fighting-the-most-hated-industry dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Guardian gives us an article about one woman fighting back against the ever more invasive robocall.

Many people dislike receiving robocalls. Araceli King disliked receiving 153 of them from a single company.

Time Warner Cable Inc must pay the insurance claims specialist $229,500 for placing 153 automated calls meant for someone else to her cellphone in less than a year, even after she told it to stop, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

King, of Irving, Texas, accused Time Warner Cable of harassing her by leaving messages for Luiz Perez, who once held her cellphone number, even after she made clear who she was in a seven-minute discussion with a company representative.

The calls were made through an "interactive voice response" system meant for customers who were late paying bills.

The article doesn't say if Luiz Perez paid his bill yet.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:07AM (#206882)

    This is why one of the chapters in the Biblical book of Proverbs tells us not to base our dealings on debt.

    That's because way back then phone minutes where prohibitively expensive. And they didn't have an easy way of sharing the do-not-call numbers when they were chiseled in stone.

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