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posted by Fnord666 on Friday June 23 2017, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time dept.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533970545/man-accused-of-making-millions-of-robocalls-faces-biggest-ever-fcc-fine

Federal regulators on Thursday said they've identified "the perpetrator of one of the largest ... illegal robocalling campaigns" they have ever investigated.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $120 million fine for a Miami resident said to be single-handedly responsible for almost 97 million robocalls over just the last three months of 2016. Officials say Adrian Abramovich auto-dialed hundreds of millions of phone calls to landlines and cellphones in the U.S. and Canada and at one point even overwhelmed an emergency medical paging service.

Making prerecorded telemarketing phone calls to people without their prior consent is prohibited. So is making telemarketing calls to emergency phone lines and deliberately falsifying caller ID to disguise identity with the intent to harm or defraud consumers.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by TrentDavey on Friday June 23 2017, @11:18PM (1 child)

    by TrentDavey (1526) on Friday June 23 2017, @11:18PM (#530303)

    ... with a telephone call every hour hooked up to mild electric shock ... that gets more "insistent" until he answers and listens to a pin he has to input.
    I've thought about this waaaayyyyy too long for a healthy minded individual.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:02AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:02AM (#530357)

    Wow....

    I like this idea.