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FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers:
The FCC has announced its proposal to impose a fine of $37.5 million on a company accused of making robocalls and hiding the calls' origin behind the real phone numbers of consumers. The agency is attempting to show that it's cracking down on the out of control robocall industry, but critics say it's too little, too late.
On Wednesday, the FCC said that it was alerted by a whistleblower about the robocall practices of an Arizona-based company called Affordable Enterprises. According to the announcement, the company "made more than 2.3 million maliciously-spoofed telemarketing calls to Arizonans during a 14-month span starting in 2016 to sell home improvement and remodeling services."
Spoofing is the term for using various techniques to display a different phone number on a robocall target's caller-ID than the number that's actually being used by the caller. What makes the Affordable Enterprises case different is that it's accused of intentionally using phone numbers that belong to consumers. This makes it hard to file a complaint against the company and leads to confused Americans fielding angry phone calls out of the blue.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday September 28 2018, @09:56AM (7 children)
And I learned a new word.
Penultimate.
Thank you.
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(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday September 28 2018, @12:07PM (1 child)
Fancy word, sounds like it would be the ultimate penis, right? Wrong, it means the one that comes before the ULTIMATE. Like Obama came before me.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday September 28 2018, @06:10PM
You're just so In Famous!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday September 28 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)
Then you obviously never saw the Monty Python "The Penultimate Supper" sketch.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday September 29 2018, @08:05AM
Correct. I was not a big MP fan. Big movie buff, never cared for much TV however.
Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Blakes 7, Red Dwarf, Dr Who in small doses....(60's/70's versions, haven't seen any of the later ones.), along with Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space and My Favorite Martian pretty much sums up the majority of TV for me growing up in the 60's. Loved movies though.
Monty Python's brand of humor just seemed flat.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday September 28 2018, @04:27PM
I prefer antepenultimate. As in "with her antepenultimate breath".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday September 28 2018, @06:28PM (1 child)
You're welcome! I also give grammar lessons, lol! My son comes in and steals words from me when I type and changes existing ones, hehehe.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday September 29 2018, @08:07AM
Oh god no! My grammar is atrocious!
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