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Article: Sprint Nextel Files Lawsuit Against Fraud Source in Ongoing Effort to Protect Consumer Privacy; Latest Action Aims to Wipe Out Threat Posed by Private Investigation Firm Responsible for ''Pretexting'' on Behalf of Online Data Brokers.
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- March 20, 2006
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RESTON, Va. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against a private investigation firm that employs deceptive practices to illegitimately obtain customer call detail records, and then sells the confidential information to online data brokers. In its complaint against San Marco & Associates of St. Petersburg, Fla., Sprint Nextel states that the company employs fraudulent tactics such as pretexting, the practice of obtaining personal information under false pretenses, to access cell phone logs and phone numbers.
In the suit filed March 17, 2006, in U.S. federal court in Florida, Sprint Nextel states that the schemes conducted ...