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The internet’s Robin Hood uses robo-lawyers to fight parking tickets and spam calls

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Do Not Pay - I Hate the Rebel College

There's a federal lawis called the telephone consumer protection act, passed in 19 90. And what it says is that if you get an unauthorized robot call, you can sue the robot caller for one thousand 500 dollars. So we've created a trap. All these robo callers are trying to sell you something like a cruise or something like that. But instead of giving your real credit card number, you give the special do not pay credit card number. When they run the payment, which is declined, we get their name, business address and phone number through the payment network. We have one user who bought a new roof for his house with all geting about so many payments i caul

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