{"id":193403,"date":"2025-05-29T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193403"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:07:37","slug":"ohio-ag-says-robocaller-banned-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/ohio-ag-says-robocaller-banned-permanently\/","title":{"rendered":"AG says robocaller banned permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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COLUMBUS \u2013 Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his counterparts in seven other states have secured a permanent ban against a Texas-based robocaller behind billions of illegal calls, including millions sent to Ohioans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis scammer\u2019s line is dead \u2014 and it\u2019s not coming back,\u201d Yost said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dave Yost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

John Spiller has been found in\u00a0contempt\u00a0of court by a federal judge in Texas who imposed the strictest penalty possible, permanently prohibiting him from launching future telecommunications companies or otherwise operating in the telecom industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiller also is forbidden to collaborate with those who aided his illegal operations, make deceptive statements or use aliases in government filings. In addition, he must\u00a0pay<\/a>\u00a0more than $600,000 in attorney\u2019s fees and litigation costs for violating a\u00a02023 court order\u00a0that barred him from placing or facilitating robocalls \u2013 violations that last year prompted\u00a0 the attorneys general to seek the contempt order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiller \u2013 owner of Rising Eagle Capital Group, JSquared Telecom, and Rising Eagle Capital Group-Cayman \u2013 offered robocall dialer and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol ) service to telemarketers, facilitating massive volumes of robocalls, including many targeting numbers on the Do Not Call Registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He tried to circumvent the 2023 court order by using aliases to launch new VoIP providers \u2013  Every1 Telecom and ATX Telco \u2013 continuing to facilitate the same types of illegal robocalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge\u2019s latest ruling sends a strong message that bad actors cannot evade court orders by simply operating under different business names.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining Ohio in winning the contempt order were the attorneys general of Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota and Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information COLUMBUS \u2013 Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his counterparts in seven other states have secured a permanent ban against a Texas-based robocaller behind billions of illegal calls, including millions sent to Ohioans. \u201cThis scammer\u2019s line is dead \u2014 and it\u2019s not coming back,\u201d Yost said. John Spiller has been found in\u00a0contempt\u00a0of court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:02:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193420,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193403\/revisions\/193420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}