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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:07AM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:07AM (#530361)

    I don't. It lets them off way too easy. I like the other poster's idea about making them answer a telephone every hour, and getting an electric shock each time, and worse shocks if they don't listen to the call and input a number. If we do this to him 97 million times, then that's perfectly fair since that's how many times he harassed other people (and that's just for this 3-month period).

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  • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:26AM

    by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:26AM (#530369) Journal

    Okay, then. I can't say that I agree, but you keep bring you. I am not even sure if this is a criminal offense, actually. I think it may only be punishable with fines?

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