Cybersecurity Firm Calls Consumers at ‘Inappropriate’ Times of Day: Class Action

Cybersecurity company Zilla Security violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making telemarketing calls to Edward Koeller and his putative class members whose numbers are listed on the national do not call registry, and did so without their written consent, alleged Koeller’s TCPA class action. Zilla also placed calls to pitch its cybersecurity products to people “who had previously asked to no longer receive calls,” alleged Koeller’s complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-11228) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. The St. Louis-area resident listed his cellphone number on the national DNC registry in August 2007, and the number also has been listed on the Missouri DNC registry since January 2013, it said. Koeller has never been a Zilla customer, and never consented to receive its calls, but received at least two Zilla calls on April 25 and 30, both before 8 a.m., the complaint said. He informed the defendant that he wasn’t interested in the company’s products and services, and complained the calls were coming in to his cellphone at “inappropriate” times of the day, it said. Koeller and other individuals who received these telemarketing calls “suffered an invasion of privacy and were harassed” by Zilla’s conduct, said the complaint.