A telemarketing operation in Georgia that allegedly made repeated calls to Missouri residents on the state’s do not call list has agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to the state and stop making phone solicitations, according to Attorney General Chris Koster.
Named as defendants were VersaDebt and Debtsafe, companies that were making telemarketing calls offering to lower consumers’ credit card interest rates in exchange for a fee, according to Koster.
In June, 2008 the state obtained a temporary restraining order against VersaDebt and Debtsafe, alleging violations of Missouri’s do-not-call law, according to the AG.
The lawsuit claimed the companies never purchased the do not call database, which lists numbers registered in the No Call program and therefore off limits for most telemarketers, continued Koster.
The order prohibited the companies from calling names on the list, and today’s agreement goes a step further by ensuring they will not make any telemarketing calls to Missourians, regardless of whether they are registered with No Call, according to Koster.
The agreement was submitted as an assurance of voluntary compliance, filed in St. Louis Circuit Court and signed by Judge Edward W. Sweeney, the AG noted.
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