The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has sued a dozen debt collection agencies, debt payment processors and their agents in Georgia and New York, claiming that they used robocalls to threaten and harass consumers into collectively paying millions of dollars in debts they did not owe.
The complaint was filed under seal March 26. The seal was lifted Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Story granted the agency a preliminary injunction to stop the robocalls and freeze the assets of the individual defendants and their businesses.
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