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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:20AM (1 child)
You're going to need to stack a few more billions on top of that :) Read TFS once more; the 97M number is just for a three-month period. I assume that's the period they investigated in some detail, since the overall amount is stated as a much less precise "hundreds of millions", which is probably simply a projection.
But, for the love of FSM, punish him fairly. "Making an example" is a terrible, terrible approach to law enforcement!
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:05AM
That *is* fair. He harassed 97 million people, not just one or two.
I like the other poster's suggestion about hooking up to a telephone that delivers an electric shock and rings every hour, and he has to input a number to prove he listened to the spam call or he gets even worse shocks. This isn't excessive at all: if we do this to him 97 million times, then that's perfectly fair I think.