Dan Graham says his phone rings and pings constantly and he finally had enough last year.
He says he started filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau and Federal Trade Commission, but he said there was no relief.
Then last April, Graham filed his first lawsuit in Travis County against a company violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
Graham has filed around 50 small claims cases and says he’s collected about $75,000 in settlements.
He hopes more people will follow his lead and file more of these suits.
“if people knew how to push back and started doing so, we could make this kind of endless spam unaffordable for the people who do it. The hope is that there’s enough of us who stand up, start pushing back, that it becomes more expensive for companies to negligently hire these telemarketers and participate in these telemarketing practices…more expensive to do that, then the benefit they receive from it.”