Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Robocaller Faces Largest Ever FCC Fine

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

takyon writes:

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Robocaller Faces Largest Ever FCC Fine | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 25 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:13AM (3 children)

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:13AM (#530520) Journal

    How long to get to the phone, pick it up, listen for long enough to realise it's a useless call, hang up and go back to what you were doing?
    I will assume an average of 20 seconds each.

    20 x 97000000 / (60x60x24x365) = 61.517

    He wasted sixty-one and a half years of other peoples lives. Logically that's about equivalent to murdering a 25 year old.
     

    --
    If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:38PM (2 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:38PM (#530587) Journal

    I am wondering if you've actually had any formal education in critical thinking. That is, shall we say, a very strange use of the word 'logic.'

    --
    "So long and thanks for all the fish."

    • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Saturday June 24 2017, @08:39PM (1 child)

      by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday June 24 2017, @08:39PM (#530681) Journal

      I'm guessing you, like me, recall a time when words had specific meanings. Protip: that's fading fast.

      Now, "power" words are used in hopes of giving vacuous statements more cred. Examples:

      Science proves light causes darkness.

      That is literally the worst idea ever!

      Sensible people all agree we need reasonable restrictions on [demonized tool or technology].

      • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:32PM

        by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:32PM (#530709) Journal

        Valid point. *sighs* I don't even know, any more. They just make shit up.

        --
        "So long and thanks for all the fish."