United Consumer Financial Services Co. Robocall Class Action Bumped to Ohio Federal Court

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A proposed class action filed against United Consumer Financial Services has landed in U.S. District Court for the North District of Ohio. Initially filed in November 2017 in California federal court, the lawsuit claims the defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) with its practice of placing automatically dialed “robocalls” to the plaintiffs’ cell phones without consent to do so. Moreover, the lawsuit claims the defendant continued to call the plaintiffs even after the individuals demanded the company stop calling while revoking any mistakenly believed express consent.

According to the lawsuit, the calls were placed by the defendant by way of an automatic telephone dialing system, and utilized a technique called “spoofing,” which the lawsuit describes as a common tactic used to trick debtors into answering the phone.