[author: Eric Troutman]
So I am on the road for a little baseball related vacation with the boys.
But that won’t stop me from bringing you the latest TCPA developments!
One of the biggest stories of 2025 so far is Nomorobo– a massive honeypot owner– has taken to suing companies that make prerecorded calls to their numbers.
DEAR LORD: Nomorobo Just Sued Synchrony Under the TCPA For Calls to a Honeypot And This Could Be Enormous
Honeypots. Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of phone numbers owned by a single corporate subscriber. They exist merely to monitor and track calling patterns. No one is using these phones. They are monitored autonomously for a host of reasons. Most commonly companies like YouMail and Nomorobo will maintain vast honeypots to keep their app settings up … Continue reading
For the uninitiated, a honeypot is a large collection of phone numbers owned by a company– here Nomorobo–to permit it to monitor calling activity across a large sector of the american telecom network.
Nomorobo, for instance, as 290,000 numbers in its honeypot– NONE of them belong to consumers. So any call made to the honeypot number is made without consent.. or so the argument goes.
Well Nomorobo has recently began suing companies who have made “illegal” calls to their honey pot numbers under the TCPA. And since the TCPA carries $500.00 minimum statutory penalty– and since Nomorobo has probably received something like 100BB unconsented robocalls to its honeypot (just a guess) the parameters of Nomorobo’s success in these cases is incredibly meaningful to businesses across the nation.
In the latest suit, Nomorobo has sued RSI ENTERPRISES, INC claiming it made at least 3,596 illegal prerecorded call to its honeypot– at $500.00 per all that is at least $1.79MM it is seeking to recover.
Ouch.
The issue is simply this– does Nomorobo have standing to sue?
The TCPA seems to permit any person or entity to file suit, but some courts have found only “consumers” who are actually using a phone can sue under the Telephone CONSUMER Protection Act.
But what’s in a name?
We will soon find out.
And in the meantime,
WE DID IT!: WE UPDATED OUT 2025 TCPA ANNUAL REVIEW AND YOU SIMPLY MUST HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW!
All right folks, we did it! As soon as news broke that the FCC’s new one-to-one rule was not going into effect we here at Troutman Amin, LLP got to work! We updated our famous 2025 TCPA Annual review, presented by Contact Center Compliance to clarify that one-to-one was not in effect and provided the … Continue reading
I’ll send it to you.
Even from the road.
Chat soon.
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