The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled with an operator who allegedly sent millions of illegal text messages to consumers. Operator Phil Flora is banned from sending any unsolicited text messages or "making false or misleading claims about any good or service" after he sent a "mind-boggling" number of spam text messages to consumers for mortgage services and claimed he was affiliated with a government agency, according to the FTC complaint filed in February. Flora's actions violated the FTC Act and the CAN-SPAM Act, the FTC charged, ordering Flora to pay $58,946.
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