FTC wins $3.4 million dollar case against company targeting elderly through telemarketing

Court Bars Brooklyn Company from Using Threats and Intimidation to Coerce Elderly Consumers into Paying for Unwanted Medical Alert Devices
Court Orders Defendants to Pay $3.4 Million in “Unjust Gains”
FOR RELEASE [color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)]April 23, 2015[/color]
See:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-release ... midation-coerce

Yahoo!!!!  Thanks for posting, Mouse.  Good news indeed.  I actually had to scream at one of these characters on the phone for tricking my MIL.  Had to cancel her credit card to keep them from scamming her.

Tell your elderly friends and relations about how to use Caller ID to recognize these types of calls -- and not to answer any calls with names and numbers they do not recognize. The elderly are prime targets of these predators.

" Brooklyn-based Instant Response Systems (IRS) "

Curious about the (IRS) three-letter-acronym, I searched for the business :

found the previous FTC press release :
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-release ... ception-threats
FTC Action Halts Brooklyn Company from Using Deception, Threats, and Intimidation to Trick Elderly Consumers Into Paying for Unordered Medical Alert Devices
March 8, 2013

A Better Business Bureau page :
http://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-rev ... klyn-ny-110055/
That provides this information :
Business Management
Henry Thornton, VP, Customer Service
Contact Information
Principal: Jason Abraham
Customer Contact: Henry Thornton, VP, Customer Service

This webpage full of complaints :
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Instant.Response.Systems.718-339-1805
Most recent complaint is 2012.

another address (see the complaints on the merchantcircle webpage)
http://www.bbb.org/boston/business-reviews/me ... ough-ma-124047/

Want to bet they don't stop?  Nothing short of being thrown in jail stops these sociopaths.

And when was the last time any of them ended up in jail?   As long as the only punishment  imposed can be paid out of petty cash, and those fines are inevitable reduced due to the "inability to pay," it will go on.