Federal Court Bars 2 Companies From Providing VoIP Service
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York permanently barred two individuals and two companies that allegedly transmitted hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls from operating as intermediate VoIP carriers, DOJ said Wednesday. “As alleged in a civil complaint filed earlier this year,” spouses Nicholas and Natasha Palumbo of Scottsdale, Arizona, and their companies, Ecommerce National, doing business as TollFreeDeals.com, and SIP Retail, doing business as sipretail.com, “received millions of internet based calls every day from other entities, often located abroad,” DOJ said. “The defendants transmitted those calls first to other carriers within the United States, and ultimately to the phones of individuals, knowing that the calls were fraudulent government and business-imposter robocalls.”