Two telecom carriers and its owners will no longer be able to continue facilitating millions of fraudulent robocalls targeting vulnerable people particularly seniors across the United States.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), a federal court in New York entered a Consent Decree permanently shutting down the operations of Ecommerce National LLC and SIP Retail doing business as tollfreedeals.com and sipretail.com, respectively.
Under the terms of the Consent Decree, are permanently prohibited from using the U.S. telephone system to deliver prerecorded messages through automatic means, carry voice-over-internet protocol calls destined for phones in the United States, and not to provide any U.S. phone numbers to other individuals or entities.
The owners of the two telecom carriers, spouses Nicolas and Natasha Palumbo of Arizona are also prohibited from engaging in similar conduct. They are permanently prohibited from serving as employees, agents, or consultants to any person or entity engaged in the activities enumerated above.
The defendants knowingly robocalls impersonating SSA, threatening victims
Earlier this year, the Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the defendants for allegedly knowingly allowing individuals and entities overseas to transmit fraudulent robocalls to people across the U.S. through their network.
