DirecTV Files Lawsuit Against 19 Canadians
DirecTV Files Lawsuit Against 19 Canadians
DirecTV, Inc. announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in Ontario against 19 Canadian citizens and five of their businesses that it believes were participating in a scheme to activate fraudulent DirecTV accounts that enabled individuals to receive DirecTV programming without authorization by, or proper payment to DirecTV.
In connection with the lawsuit, DirecTV executed civil seizure orders at nine separate locations in southern Ontario, and recovered a “significant volume” of computer files and business records related to the activation fraud scheme and grey market activity, as well as equipment used in the past to modify DirecTV access cards. The raid, the largest ever conducted by DirecTV on a single day, was the culmination of a six-month investigation by DirecTV’s Office of Signal Integrity and Legal department.