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Rent-A-Center Made Debt Collection Calls to Non-Account Holder: Suit

Rent-A-Center inundated Scotty Asher with daily debt collection calls using an automatic telephone dialing system that began in early 2022 and never stopped, alleged Asher’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00430) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in…

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Las Vegas. The calls involve a Rent-A-Center account that doesn’t belong to Asher, nor has he ever done business with the lease-to-own chain, said the Clark County, Nevada, resident. “The repeated calls were especially frustrating” because they tied up his phone line while he was traveling, said the complaint. Rent-A-Center didn’t comment.