In what may be the largest judgment in western New York in a “robocall” consumer harassment case, a Wyoming County woman has been awarded $232,500—$500 for each interrupting call—by a federal judge in Buffalo after she got 465 robocalls from a bank in six months, according to her lawyer and court records.

“I don’t think anyone should be harassed like I was, especially if you pay your bills,” the woman, Kimberly Salerno, said in a statement about her case and the judgment handed down by U.S. District Judge John Sinatra Jr. of the Western District of New York.

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