Consumer Law
North Carolina AG Sues a Texas Company Over Scam Calls
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in a lawsuit filed against a Texas company which claims it helped scammers place robocalls inundating phones.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Texas-based telecommunications business Articul8 helped facilitate scam calls across the country, the lawsuit says. That includes tens of millions of calls to North Carolinians, even though the company either knew or should’ve known that it was helping criminals try to defraud people, according to the lawsuit.
Rather than targeting individual scammers, the state is targeting the company that has been routing their calls and making a good profit doing so, Stein said.
