Commercial Loan Firm Inundates Thousands With Unwanted Calls, Texts: Class Action
New York Tribeca Group (NYTG), a commercial loan company, “uses automated systems to send outbound telephonic sales calls, including text messages, to hundreds if not thousands of consumers across the U.S.,” alleged plaintiff Dana Ehde’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class…
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action Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-07636) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. The consumers who receive NYTG’s calls include many whose phone numbers are listed on the national do not call registry, said the complaint. NYTG made sales calls or caused them to be made using “spoofed phone numbers” that weren’t capable of receiving calls or connecting the original call recipient to NYTG, it said. Other consumers posted complaints online about receiving NYTG’s unsolicited sales calls and text messages, as did “multiple” NYTG employees, said the complaint. The NYTG employees who posted online reviews about the company’s telemarketing practices attested that NYTG provided them with consumer leads for “cold calling,” it said. NYTG continues to place unsolicited calls and text messages even after consumers demanded they stop, it said. Plaintiff Ehde of Chalfont, Pennsylvania, began receiving NYTG’s unsolicited calls to her phone in mid-2021 offering “business capital loans,” it said. All the calls and texts were directed toward a party named Andy, who Ehde doesn’t know but believes was the previous owner of her cellphone number, it said. The calls and texts persisted, despite Ehde’s clear opt-out requests, it said. The unauthorized sales calls and text messages harmed Ehde “in the form of annoyance, nuisance, and invasion of privacy, and disturbed the use and enjoyment of her phone,” it said. Court records show Ehde’s lawsuit is the fourth TCPA action filed against NYTG since Nov. 18.