A proposed class action claims American Debt Protection placed illegal robocalls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry.

Angela Brown filed a class action lawsuit against American Debt Protection in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Oct. 8, 2026.

The lawsuit alleges the debt relief company placed prerecorded telemarketing calls and sent marketing texts to individuals registered on the National Do Not Call Registry.

Brown's reported experience

Brown alleges the calls began in June 2026 and continued through the filing date. She says she registered her phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry in 2007, uses the phone only for personal purposes, never did business with American Debt Protection and never gave the company her number.

The prerecorded messages reportedly included:


  • A message that mentioned a credit bureau update and said Brown was "preselected for up to $42,200"

  • Another that offered a $40,500 hardship personal loan with no hard credit check and same-day funding

  • Numerous calls offering the company's products

Brown also received dozens of texts about the same kind of hardship loans, the complaint claims. She claims she identified the voice messages as recordings by their generic content, tone, cadence and inflection.

On two occasions, Brown claims she called back numbers that appeared in the calls and texts. The lawsuit says an employee then texted her on Aug. 13, 2026, to confirm the messages came from American Debt Protection, and a second employee sent a similar confirmation three days later.

The company does not have a written do-not-call policy and does not train its telemarketers to use a do-not-call list, the filing contends. The calls and voicemails allegedly drained Brown's phone battery, took up storage space and left her frustrated, distressed, disturbed and feeling harassed.

Two claims under federal telemarketing law

The lawsuit brings two claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a 1991 federal law that restricts telemarketing calls:


  • TCPA prerecorded voice rules, which bar marketing calls to cell phones that use an artificial or prerecorded voice without the recipient's prior written consent

  • TCPA Do Not Call rules, which let people on the registry sue over more than one solicitation from the same company within 12 months

Brown seeks a court order to stop the calls, attorneys’ fees and $500 for each violation, an amount that triples to $1,500 if the court finds the company acted willfully or knowingly.

What the lawsuit means for people who received American Debt Protection calls

The lawsuit proposes two nationwide classes, both reaching back four years before the filing. One covers anyone who received a prerecorded or artificial-voice call on their cell phone from American Debt Protection or its agents. The other covers anyone on the National Do Not Call Registry for at least 31 days who received more than one sales call pitching the company’s services within a 12-month period.

As of this writing, there is no settlement, no claims process and no money available.