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Texas AG Shuts Down USA Skiptrace of Colorado

By PI Magazine (Tamara Thompson and Rosemarie Mesis)

The Texas Attorney General is employing various media - screen shots, video, press releases and court documents - to broadcast its recent shuttering of USA Skiptrace, AMS Research Services, Inc. and Worldwide Investigations, Inc. for selling consumers? private telephone records and impersonating those account holders. These businesses were based in Colorado but conducted business in Texas when they called Texas telecommunications companies.

The Office of the Attorney General charged USA Skiptrace with violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The corporate defendants were ordered to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, with John Strange also responsible for a separate fine of $2,500.

Do you think that the telephone companies might someday send customers automatic email alerts notifying them of inquires?

Full post as published by PI buzz on September 28, 2008 (boomark / email).