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Complaint Review: American Center for Law and Justice - Washington District of Columbia

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  • American Center for Law and Justice 201 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, District of Columbia United States of America

American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ, (202) 459-9010, "Collection Agency", Jay Alan Sekulow The ACLJ makes harassing and illegal phone calls using fake caller IDs Washington, District of Columbia

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Rebuttal to charge that ACLJ is harassing

*Consumer Comment: aclj harassing robocalls

*General Comment: I do not believe you are dealing with ACLJ

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I have been harassed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) for many weeks. Their marketing department continually violates the law and subjects people to endless crank and annoying calls - in direct violation of the Federal Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007. As the ACLJ is run by "lawyers", their egregious violations of law and grossly unethical practice are nothing less than obscene. Here are the facts:

  1. I've been getting calls from the ACLJ for weeks even though I never gave them my number to harass me. The number they used today is (202) 459-9010. They have used other numbers too.

  2. My phone numbers have always been unlisted and I've been on the National Do Not Call lists for many years.

  3. When I answer their harassing phone calls, the ACLJ immediately hangs up on me.

  4. Calling the number back does the same thing - when I call back to tell them to stop harassing me (again), I get blasted with a single, loud, and very obnoxious beep and they then immediately disconnect me (this fact is easily verified). 
I called one of their other numbers, from their web site, many weeks ago and demanded that their harassing calls cease immediately. I was told that their marketing department uses an automated dialer that calls three different numbers at once, the first phone that gets answered receives their harassing phone call, the other two phones get disconnected (there have been MANY times when I've answered my phone only to be subjected to this extraordinarily disgusting practice.

When I called the ACLU, several weeks ago, they promised to take care of the matter within 48 hours - that was a lie - their harassing calls have NEVER STOPPED. I reported the ACLJ to the National Do Not Call Center weeks ago - that has done nothing (I just reported them a second time, a moment ago). This afternoon, I received more crank calls from the ACLJ, but now they're using FAKE and FRAUDULENT caller IDs. The one I received today states they're a "collection agency" (that, of course, is a lie).

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#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company

Rebuttal to charge that ACLJ is harassing

AUTHOR: Kathy - (United States)

POSTED: Thursday, April 19, 2018

I have donated to ACLJ multiple times but never contatcted to ask for donation. They do not solicit donations by robot call or harrassment. I have dealt with scammers who harrassed my mother the same way Barbj described. In my own experience with ACLJ and scammers, in my opinion, she has been a victim of a scammer using ACLJ as thier cover. This has happened before when scammers willl use different entities to scam and harrass people..they have used the IRS for an example to harass folks to give money. If Barbj has never called them or had any dealing with ACLJ...I highly doubt she has been contated by them.

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aclj harassing robocalls

AUTHOR: barbj - ()

POSTED: Monday, April 21, 2014

Actually it is the ACLJ that is harassing people with constant robocalls and hangup calls from several different fake spoofed numbers and no messages left.  They started calling me in March.  I found their toll free number and entered my number to be removed (twice I called that number, which is only a recording).  Then in early April I started getting bombarded with their robocalls, sometimes twice in 2 or 3 hours.  The caller ID said "ACLJ" or "Am Law Justice" above the fake number.

 

Today when I got a second call in 4 hours, I picked up to see if they'd hang up.  I usually don't answer since it's an unlisted landline I mostly use just for Internet and did not give them permission to call and don't know how they managed to get my number.  This time I was furious with the harassment, so I picked up.  I actually got a human this time after their autodialer connected.  He identified himself as being with ACLJ and wanted to know what I thought were the most "important issues".  I told him I wouldn't answer because they've been harassing me with robocalls.  I said I didn't know how they got my number, but to remove me immediately.  The fake number that showed up was 818-452-0684.  The other numbers they've been calling from are 760-946-6800 and 951-289-4382.  This is indeed the ACLJ harassing people every day, sometimes a few times a day - people who never donated and never will and who never gave their number to these harassers.  I believe in their cause, but this harassment is over the line.  If they want my opinion or want to ask for donations, they can email me or send something in postal mail.  If they call me again, I'm filing a complaint with my attorney generall and will be contacting a lawyer as well.

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I do not believe you are dealing with ACLJ

AUTHOR: tigger - ()

POSTED: Wednesday, January 29, 2014

the aclj has always been there for everybodies rights. I believe it is a scamer using there name. I used to donate and when times got hard and I stopped they never asked again. aclj accepted no as no.

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