ADT Vendor Repeatedly Calls Numbers on DNC Registry, Alleges Class Action

Slingshot Enterprises violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making telemarketing calls to Leon Weingrad and other putative class members whose numbers were listed on the national do not call registry without their written consent, alleged Weingrad’s class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03736) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Central Islip. An ADT home security vendor, Slingshot also phoned people who had previously asked to no longer receive calls, said his complaint. Weingrad’s phone number had been listed on the national DNC registry for at least a year before he began receiving the calls at issue, it said. The plaintiff has never been a Slingshot customer and never consented to receive Slingshot’s calls, it said. He nevertheless received at least eight solicitation calls from Slingshot since early April, pitching him on an ADT home alarm system, it said. Weingrad spoke to an ADT representative who identified Slingshot as the source of the illegal calls, said the complaint. The calls were unwanted, and they were “nonconsensual encounters,” said the complaint. The plaintiff’s privacy has been “repeatedly violated” by the unwanted telemarketing calls, it said. He and the class have been harmed by Slingshot’s acts because they were “annoyed and harassed,” it said. The calls also occupied their phone lines, storage space and bandwidth, “rendering them unavailable for legitimate communication, including while driving, working, and performing other critical tasks,” it said.