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One text to the wrong number can cost $1,500. DialClear finds the wrong numbers before you dial.
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Publicly reported TCPA outcomes
- Wakefield v. ViSalus$925M
Jury verdict. About 1.85 million robocalls at $500 each.
- Krakauer v. Dish Network$61M
Trebled verdict for calls to DNC-registered numbers placed by a vendor.
- Capital One TCPA settlement$75.5M
One of the largest TCPA class settlements on record.
Public court records and reported settlements. Every case turns on its own facts.
How do businesses that “did nothing wrong” end up sued?
Nobody plans to violate the TCPA. The statute doesn't care: damages are automatic, per message, and available without proving any harm. The trouble comes from five traps most teams find out about from a demand letter.
- Statutory damages, per call or text
- $500
- If willful or knowing
- $1,500
- Harm you must prove
- $0
- Messages in one campaign
- 100,000+
Your list was clean. Thirty days later, it isn't.
A one-time scrub quietly expires while you keep dialing on it.
Numbers join federal and state DNC registries every single day.
The FTC safe harbor expects a registry check no more than 31 days old.
Krakauer: ordinary sales calls to DNC-registered numbers, trebled by the court.
Roughly 51,000 calls to DNC-registered numbers, $400 per call, trebled for willfulness. Publicly reported outcome; every case turns on its own facts.
DialClear checks every number against DNC registries before you dial, and the free 30-Day Protection toggle re-screens your whole base on a rolling cycle, alerting you the moment a clean contact turns flagged.
The number changed hands. The liability didn't.
Your lead’s consent stopped counting the day their number was reassigned.
Consent belongs to the number’s current owner, not your lead.
The FCC built the Reassigned Numbers Database in response.
A caller who checks it with the consent date has a narrow safe harbor if it answers wrong.
The court held TCPA consent attaches to the number's current subscriber. Your lead's consent stopped counting the day the number was reassigned.
Premium phone screening queries the FCC Reassigned Numbers Database and flags numbers disconnected since the date it is given. Single lookups and API calls take your consent date. Automatic screens look back 30 days.
Some phones exist to be called by you.
Professional TCPA plaintiffs answer marketing calls for a living.
Their numbers get seeded into the lead lists you buy.
Individual filers have brought hundreds of suits each.
Demand letters arrive priced just below the cost of a defense.
Repeat TCPA filers are a documented phenomenon in federal dockets. Litigator databases exist specifically to catalogue their numbers.
Every lookup checks known-litigator and pre-litigation databases, and Shield subscribers get flags propagated across accounts in real time: when a number is flagged anywhere on the network, matching contacts in your accounts are flagged too.
A small mistake, multiplied by your whole list.
Damages are per message. One bad campaign is thousands of violations, not one.
A 2,000-contact blast to a bad list is 2,000 separate violations.
ViSalus: 1.85 million calls at $500 each became $925 million.
Screening the list before it goes out costs cents per contact.
Approximately 1.85 million prerecorded calls at the $500 statutory minimum. The award was later challenged on constitutional grounds on appeal; facts and defenses vary by case.
Screening runs automatically as contacts are created or updated in your CRM, and bulk CSV scrubbing screens up to 10,000 rows with an exact cost shown before anything runs, so a list never goes out the door raw.
When the letter arrives, paperwork is the defense.
Two documents decide most disputes: provable consent and your written DNC policy.
“They filled out a form at some point” is not evidence.
Screenshots get disputed. Timestamped, tamper-evident records hold.
The law expects a written DNC policy, available to anyone on demand.
One of the largest TCPA settlements on record, centered on autodialed calls and disputed consent. Consent you can prove is the difference.
The Consent Vault seals every opt-in into a tamper-evident, hash-chained record, captured automatically from your CRM forms, imported from history, or sealed from call recordings, and the DNC Audit Pack generates the written policy and monthly reports you are expected to produce.
One platform, watching all five.
DialClear screens every number before you dial, keeps screening as registries change, and builds the tamper-evident paper trail that answers a demand letter. It runs inside the tools you already use: automatically from your CRM, in bulk from a CSV, or over a documented API, with every lookup saved to a searchable history.
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Phone screening DNC, litigator and validity checks | $0.07 / lookup |
Phone screening premium Adds the FCC reassigned-number check | $0.15 / lookup |
Address and location lookup Address verification, geolocation and timezone | $0.08 / lookup |
Contact verification Name-to-number trust score | $0.08 / lookup |
Contact verification premium Adds carrier-authoritative identity match | $0.25 / lookup |
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Included with every account
- 30-Day Protection re-screening (pay only the lookups)
- Wireless-number tagging
- Automatic CRM screening and DND write-back
- Full lookup history and usage tracking
- API access with reference docs
- Bulk CSV scrubbing
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Get started freeDialClear provides screening tools and data to support your compliance program. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and no tool can guarantee compliance. How you contact your leads, and compliance with the TCPA and DNC laws, remains your responsibility. Case outcomes described above are matters of public record; every case turns on its own facts.