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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:21AM (1 child)
Yes. Disregard of others on this level suggests the person is a psychopath or sociopath (whichever is the right term). In addition to the usual punishment, they should get life imprisonment until they can prove they are not. Without such a check, we are endanger of him doing the same, or worse, due to the lack of morals.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:29AM
That's not even how mental illness is diagnosed. I am gonna guess you're not actually qualified to diagnose anyone, actually. Sheesh...
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