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Malwarebytes Bombards Consumers With Unwanted Text Messages: Class Action

Malwarebytes and its agents, acting as a "common enterprise," knowingly and willfully engage in unsolicited text message marketing to consumers, alleged a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01039) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana. Malwarebytes and…

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its agents repeatedly violated the TCPA by sending automated text messages to the plaintiffs and the proposed class without prior express written consent, said the complaint. They also sent telemarketing text messages to Thomas Roehrman and Annamarie Stapinski and the class members while their phone numbers were listed on the national do not call registry, it said. The Hendricks County, Indiana, plaintiffs seek an award of statutory damages for themselves and the class, plus injunctive relief ending Malwarebytes’ unlawful conduct, which has resulted in intrusion into the plaintiffs’ and the class members’ “peace and quiet in a realm that is private and personal” to them, it said. The complaint identifies Wewe Media Group, a Singapore-based marketing network, as a nonparty.