Rokita files major lawsuit against alleged robocalling scammers

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Attorney General Todd Rokita connected Thursday announced a large suit against a institution that allegedly operated arsenic a gateway for overseas robocalling scammers.

The Evansville-based company, Startel Communication LLC, helped robocallers successful India, the Philippines and Singapore, Rokita said. Those robocallers made implicit 4.8 cardinal calls to Hoosies and hundreds of millions of calls to different states.

Some of the astir fashionable scams utilized were IRS and Social Security Administration imposter scams, Rokita said. The probe began with lawsuit complaints and took implicit a twelvemonth to complete.

The suit besides includes 2 California-based companies — Piratel LLC and VoIP Essential LLC — which, combined, routed 4.6 cardinal robocalls.

Of the Hoosiers who were called, Rokita said, much than 780,000 were connected the national “Do Not Call” registry and much than 605,000 were connected Indiana’s “Do Not Call” list.

According to Rotika, the suit alleges the companies committed millions of violations of some national and Indiana law. The companies look imaginable fines successful the billions.