RECENT NEWS
On December 8, 2022, the FCC ordered all voice service providers
to terminate customer relationships or block traffic from illegal
student-loan related scam robocalls. The “Student Loan
Robocall Operation,” consisting of Urth Access LLC, Fire Data
LLC, US Acquisitions LLC, Dawood & Dawood, Dawood and Company,
their individual associates, and associated entities, was found to
be responsible for millions of such calls. The Order warned that
“if any voice service provider, after investigation of the
suspected illegal robocall traffic identified in this Order,
thereafter does NOT terminate a customer relationship or block the
traffic, it will be required to provide a written report to the
Bureau with the results of its investigation[.]”
The Order comes in response to an uptick in robocall scams
regarding student loan payments following President Biden’s
initial loan-forgiveness announcement on August 24, 2022. The
Student Loan Robocall Operation “did not receive adequate
consent of the called parties for its robocalls,” in violation
of the TCPA. Some of the robocalls contained the following
message:
“Hello this is to inform you that the Student Loan payment
suspension has been extended
to December 31 of this year. Also, everyone is now going to get
$10,000 dismissed upon
income verification. If you…
