Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force warns 4 companies of Robocall litigation

On December 10, 2024, the 51 Attorneys General that compose the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force issued warnings to four businesses for facilitating illegal/scam robocalls. The businesses are:

KWK Communications, Inc.

  • Operates out of 500 N. Rainbow Blvd, Suite 300, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89107.
  • Received at least 129 traceback notices between 2020 and 2022, including IRS, SSA, extended warranty, Medicare, travel and utility scams.
  • Allegedly routed over 20,000 calls with spoofed telephone numbers and over 8.7 million calls with invalid Caller ID numbers in 2022.

INBOUND COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

  • Operates out of 22 Utica Road, Edison, New Jersey, 08820, a single-family residence belonging to their CEO and President Abdullah Hamayun.
  • Formerly known as Inbound, Inc.
  • Received at least 63 traceback notices between 2021 and 2022, including imposter scams.
  • Is also estimated to have routed over 28.4 million DirecTV/Spectrum scams in a single month in 2022.
  • Has received a cease-and-desist from the FTC over their scam calls.

AKA MANAGEMENT, INC.

  • Operates out of 1621 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 82001
  • Received at least 129 traceback notices between 2020 and 2022, including SSA, COVID, travel, utility, imposter and tech support scams.
  • Is believed to have routed around 12.1 million Amazon and Apple scam calls in a single month in 2022.
  • Has received a cease-and-desist from the FTC over their facilitation of Amazon, Microsoft and travel scams.
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CALLVOX, LLC.

  • Operates out of 247 Water St., Suite 402, Brooklyn, New York, 11201
  • Received over 47 traceback notices between 2020 and 2022 over suspicious robocalls to people on the Do-Not-Call registry and robocalls using spoofed phone numbers.
  • Has facilitated SSA, tech support and utility scams.
  • Has received a cease-and-desist from the FTC over their facilitation of SSA, PayPal, Amazon, AT&T/DirecTV, Microsoft, utility and travel scams.
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