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Intershame On: Christopher D. Cowart, James A. Dunne and Damian P. Kohlfeld |
Car Warranty Robocallers
07/06/2009
Via consumerist.com via foxnews.com...
Fox News has their details...
Meet the main players behind the alleged scheme:
- Christopher D. Cowart, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., owns Transcontinental Warranty, a Delaware company based in Fort Lauderdale. A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, Cowart likes to read, travel and play golf in his spare time. He also maintains a Facebook page and uses a LinkedIn profile to advertise his latest business ventures.
- James A. Dunne, 36, of Daytona Beach, Fla., owns Florida-based Voice Touch with his wife, Maureen. Dunne has a checkered legal past, including charges of filing a false report of a bomb that landed him six months in jail in 1991. He was most recently arrested in 2001 for indecent exposure, but those charges were later dismissed.
- Damian P. Kohlfeld, 35, of Valparaiso, Ind., is the owner of Network Foundations, which is based in Chicago. Kohlfeld allegedly supplied the technical know-how for the alleged telemarketing scheme employed by all three companies. The Arizona State University graduate has more than a decade of experience writing software and building computer networks.
These fine people who were fingered by the FCC are (naturally) pleading ignorance. Here are some of the trangressions they claim they didn't do:
Cowar, Dunne and Kohlfeld could face some very serious charges. For merely ignoring the National Do-Not-Call List, violators could be fined up to $11,000 per incident.
So these three people and the three companies they work for (Transcontinental Warranty, Voice Touch and Network Foundations) seem responsible for a massive campaign of public nuisance. This discovery reminds me a lot of when "spam king" Robert Soloway was arrested. Soloway's arrest led to expectations that the amount of spam email being received worldwide would be drastically cut, but nothing really changed.. As with the arrest of Robert Soloway, for every Cowart, Dunne and Kohlfeld taken out of the game, there likely hundreds of would be robocall architects waiting to fill their void.
And drugs. Well, maybe not drugs.
If you hate robocalls like we hate robocalls, then may I introduce you to the three people being blamed for over 3 billion of them. You read that right - billion.Fox News has their details...
Meet the main players behind the alleged scheme:
- Christopher D. Cowart, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., owns Transcontinental Warranty, a Delaware company based in Fort Lauderdale. A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, Cowart likes to read, travel and play golf in his spare time. He also maintains a Facebook page and uses a LinkedIn profile to advertise his latest business ventures.
- James A. Dunne, 36, of Daytona Beach, Fla., owns Florida-based Voice Touch with his wife, Maureen. Dunne has a checkered legal past, including charges of filing a false report of a bomb that landed him six months in jail in 1991. He was most recently arrested in 2001 for indecent exposure, but those charges were later dismissed.
- Damian P. Kohlfeld, 35, of Valparaiso, Ind., is the owner of Network Foundations, which is based in Chicago. Kohlfeld allegedly supplied the technical know-how for the alleged telemarketing scheme employed by all three companies. The Arizona State University graduate has more than a decade of experience writing software and building computer networks.
These fine people who were fingered by the FCC are (naturally) pleading ignorance. Here are some of the trangressions they claim they didn't do:
- Kohlfeld didn't write spoofing software that tricked caller identification systems into displaying untraceable numbers.
- Cowart didn't engage in illicit sales and marketing tactics.
- Coward didn't make shit up on his LinkedIn page.
- Dunne didn't ignore the National Do-Not-Call List.
Cowar, Dunne and Kohlfeld could face some very serious charges. For merely ignoring the National Do-Not-Call List, violators could be fined up to $11,000 per incident.
So these three people and the three companies they work for (Transcontinental Warranty, Voice Touch and Network Foundations) seem responsible for a massive campaign of public nuisance. This discovery reminds me a lot of when "spam king" Robert Soloway was arrested. Soloway's arrest led to expectations that the amount of spam email being received worldwide would be drastically cut, but nothing really changed.. As with the arrest of Robert Soloway, for every Cowart, Dunne and Kohlfeld taken out of the game, there likely hundreds of would be robocall architects waiting to fill their void.
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- 962 days agoThese men own me quite a bit of money. Yes, I bought into the scam. I paid in full a policy on my truck. Yes, I said paid in full and now I do not have a policy since they did not forward the funds necessary over to the main company that oversees the warranty contracts. They stole my money and closed the business. Anyone else out there want to sue their fannies off???????? Sarah M. Houston, TX
- 751 days agoThese worthless pieces of S*** got away with a slap on the wrist. I won't want to sue them... I want to wake them up every 10 mins while they try to sleep FOR THE REST OF THEIR WORTHLESS LIVES... which, if there was any justice, wouldn't be more than 6 months.
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