Class Action Takes Issue with Discount Power’s Allegedly Illegal Robocalls

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Discount Power, Inc. is facing a proposed class action lawsuit claiming the energy services company engaged in an illegal telemarketing scheme in which it placed robocalls to consumers’ phones without their prior consent. The plaintiff alleges he received a call to his residential phone number that played him a prerecorded message informing him that he “could be eligible” for a discount on his electric bill and instructing him to “press five” to speak to a live agent. According to the suit, the caller’s telephone number was “spoofed” and was not a working number. The case claims “it is a violation of the [Telephone Consumer Protection Act] to not identify the company who is making the call.”

The plaintiff further argues that he never provided his express consent to receive the defendant’s call – or the “identical” call he received from the company later that month – and wrote to the defendant requesting evidence of his consent. According to the complaint, “Discount Power did not respond.”