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Click Here 👍In the case below, it would seem that it is now up to the U.S. Federal court to decide what happened.
TransNexus, a loud-mouthed stir/shaken and telecom software provider, sends out blogs and email posts continually. Last month, it quoted the Indiana attorney general going after two different telecom companies who have allegedly originated or processed massive amounts of fraudulent calls.
So far, so good.
But in quoting the Indiana Attorney General, TransNexus’ blog changed the name of one of the fraudsters from John Spiller at Great Choice Telecom, to Michael Lansky at Avid Telecom, LLC. Where did TransNexus get the Avid and Lansky names? The Indiana AG did file a complaint on November 1st against Avid. It would appear TransNexus got either careless or negligent or something else, in mixing up the parties’ names.
Avid and Lansky are now suing TransNexus for damages to Avid, and for harm to Lansky as an individual. Here’s the introduction to the suit that was filed last week in Georgia’s Northern U.S. Federal District Court.
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs Avid Telecom, LLC (“Avid Telecom”) and Michael Lansky (collectively “Plaintiffs”), by and through their undersigned attorneys, hereby file this complaint for damages against TransNexus, LLC (“TransNexus”), stating as follows.
1. Avid Telecom has operated as a common carrier provider of telecommunications services since 2001. The company specializes in the delivery of automated calls for its customers to persons who have authorized Avid Telecom’s calling party customers to place those calls. In providing telecommunications services to its customers, Avid Telecom is fully compliant with all federal and state laws governing its operations generally, and specifically as it relates to the transmission of auto-dialed calls. Among other things, Avid Telecom refuses to do business with international organizations responsible for most of the illegal robocalls in the United States. Indeed, due to Avid Telecom’s aggressive efforts to prevent illegal robocalling, it acts as a firewall, preventing millions of illegal robocalls from being completed each year.
2. Yet, despite Avid Telecom’s careful compliance with all applicable laws, the company has been victimized by politicians, industry groups, and other unsavory entities who are motivated by profit and/or to score points in the media and with the public by targeting robocall companies.
3. One such company is TransNexus. On November 15, 2022, TransNexus published a transcript of a skype conversion showing one of the participants seeking to break the law by “masking” illegal robocalls and legitimate calls so they would not get “flagged” by federal investigatory agencies. However, rather than identifying the actual participant in the skype, TransNexus published a doctored version that alleged one of the parties to be Michael Lansky, the CEO of Avid Telecom. TransNexus’s doctored transcript was published on its blog, and then picked up and republished on numerous other platforms.
4. To be clear, Mr. Lansky was not part of the skype conversation. In fact, the original, un-doctored transcript of the conversation is part of a public complaint filed by the Indiana Attorney General. The accurate, publicly available transcript clearly shows that the quoted party was made by a man identified as “onlywebleads.” TransNexus replaced the name “onlywebleads” with “Lansky.”
5. It is hard to view the TransNexus conduct as innocent or disinterested. Indeed, the only way for the changes to have been made would be for someone at TransNexus to physically retype the name “onlywebleads” and replace it, multiple times, with name “Lansky. It is not conceivable that anyone could or would have done that by mistake. The much more logical explanation is that TransNexus, as a provider of software utilized by telecommunications companies to address robocalling, had a specific and direct financial interest in publishing scandalous allegations of wrongful conduct by carriers. Indeed, the publication of these scandalous allegations was plainly designed to achieve a direct economic benefit for TransNexus in two ways. First, the publication of these allegations was designed to foster direct engagement with the blog by readers as well as the republication of the blog by third party publishers—thereby placing TransNexus in the public eye on an issue of significant interest in the telecommunications industry. Second, and perhaps more directly, the publication of these allegations was designed to stimulate the sales of the TransNexus<a href="https://prescott-martini.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bc05007124d94609d5d2fb845&id=182418406d&e=a9932899d7"> ClearIP and<a href="https://prescott-martini.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bc05007124d94609d5d2fb845&id=1480cb1ea3&e=a9932899d7"> NexOSS software, which is promoted as helping customers to prevent robocalling. </a></a>
6. The TransNexus blog labels Avid Telecom as an illicit robocall company headed by a CEO who breaks the law. That outcome was achieved. In a matter of days, Avid Telecom’s providers were citing to the false TransNexus article as reason to cut ties with Avid Telecom. Avid Telecom and Mr. Lansky have no choice but to seek to correct this record and hold TransNexus accountable for its deliberately false publication.
Lets hope the Courts decide this one quickly
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Sometimes people just screw-up, sometimes negligently so, and sometimes deliberately so -- is this screw-up something much more?
Sometimes people just screw-up, sometimes negligently so, and sometimes deliberately so -- so that the screw-up is not a casual error at all, but something much more.
In the case below, it would seem that it is now up to the U.S. Federal court to decide what happened.
TransNexus, a loud-mouthed stir/shaken and telecom software provider, sends out blogs and email posts continually. Last month, it quoted the Indiana attorney general going after two different telecom companies who have allegedly originated or processed massive amounts of fraudulent calls.
So far, so good.
But in quoting the Indiana Attorney General, TransNexus’ blog changed the name of one of the fraudsters from John Spiller at Great Choice Telecom, to Michael Lansky at Avid Telecom, LLC. Where did TransNexus get the Avid and Lansky names? The Indiana AG did file a complaint on November 1st against Avid. It would appear TransNexus got either careless or negligent or something else, in mixing up the parties’ names.
Avid and Lansky are now suing TransNexus for damages to Avid, and for harm to Lansky as an individual. Here’s the introduction to the suit that was filed last week in Georgia’s Northern U.S. Federal District Court.
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs Avid Telecom, LLC (“Avid Telecom”) and Michael Lansky (collectively “Plaintiffs”), by and through their undersigned attorneys, hereby file this complaint for damages against TransNexus, LLC (“TransNexus”), stating as follows.
1. Avid Telecom has operated as a common carrier provider of telecommunications services since 2001. The company specializes in the delivery of automated calls for its customers to persons who have authorized Avid Telecom’s calling party customers to place those calls. In providing telecommunications services to its customers, Avid Telecom is fully compliant with all federal and state laws governing its operations generally, and specifically as it relates to the transmission of auto-dialed calls. Among other things, Avid Telecom refuses to do business with international organizations responsible for most of the illegal robocalls in the United States. Indeed, due to Avid Telecom’s aggressive efforts to prevent illegal robocalling, it acts as a firewall, preventing millions of illegal robocalls from being completed each year.
2. Yet, despite Avid Telecom’s careful compliance with all applicable laws, the company has been victimized by politicians, industry groups, and other unsavory entities who are motivated by profit and/or to score points in the media and with the public by targeting robocall companies.
3. One such company is TransNexus. On November 15, 2022, TransNexus published a transcript of a skype conversion showing one of the participants seeking to break the law by “masking” illegal robocalls and legitimate calls so they would not get “flagged” by federal investigatory agencies. However, rather than identifying the actual participant in the skype, TransNexus published a doctored version that alleged one of the parties to be Michael Lansky, the CEO of Avid Telecom. TransNexus’s doctored transcript was published on its blog, and then picked up and republished on numerous other platforms.
4. To be clear, Mr. Lansky was not part of the skype conversation. In fact, the original, un-doctored transcript of the conversation is part of a public complaint filed by the Indiana Attorney General. The accurate, publicly available transcript clearly shows that the quoted party was made by a man identified as “onlywebleads.” TransNexus replaced the name “onlywebleads” with “Lansky.”
5. It is hard to view the TransNexus conduct as innocent or disinterested. Indeed, the only way for the changes to have been made would be for someone at TransNexus to physically retype the name “onlywebleads” and replace it, multiple times, with name “Lansky. It is not conceivable that anyone could or would have done that by mistake. The much more logical explanation is that TransNexus, as a provider of software utilized by telecommunications companies to address robocalling, had a specific and direct financial interest in publishing scandalous allegations of wrongful conduct by carriers. Indeed, the publication of these scandalous allegations was plainly designed to achieve a direct economic benefit for TransNexus in two ways. First, the publication of these allegations was designed to foster direct engagement with the blog by readers as well as the republication of the blog by third party publishers—thereby placing TransNexus in the public eye on an issue of significant interest in the telecommunications industry. Second, and perhaps more directly, the publication of these allegations was designed to stimulate the sales of the TransNexus<a href="https://prescott-martini.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bc05007124d94609d5d2fb845&id=182418406d&e=a9932899d7"> ClearIP and<a href="https://prescott-martini.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bc05007124d94609d5d2fb845&id=1480cb1ea3&e=a9932899d7"> NexOSS software, which is promoted as helping customers to prevent robocalling. </a></a>
6. The TransNexus blog labels Avid Telecom as an illicit robocall company headed by a CEO who breaks the law. That outcome was achieved. In a matter of days, Avid Telecom’s providers were citing to the false TransNexus article as reason to cut ties with Avid Telecom. Avid Telecom and Mr. Lansky have no choice but to seek to correct this record and hold TransNexus accountable for its deliberately false publication.
Lets hope the Courts decide this one quickly!
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