Consumer Advances Junk-Text Class Action Against The Credit Pros

The Credit Pros International Corp. must face a proposed class action alleging it sent marketing text messages to consumers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Joshua Champion alleged Credit Pros and its president Jason Kaplan sent him 56 text messages within a 12 month period using an automated telephone dialing system, despite the fact that he had registered his number on the national do-not-call registry.

Credit Pros, which offers credit-repair services, argued that the complaint didn’t provide sufficient facts to show the company used an ATDS to send the texts, but Judge Julien Xavier Neals of the US ...