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Yesterday [March 26] the FTC (Federal Trade Comission) announced that it had won court orders shutting down four separate robocall "Operations Responsible for Billions of Illegal Robocalls"
Settlements were obtained against
NetDotSolutions
Higher Goals Marketing
Veterans of America
PointBreak Media
The judgements include multimillion dollar penalties and require the various entities to stop all robocalling and some other operations.
The calls you should see less of that these companies provided include
auto warranties, debt-relief services, home security systems, fake charities, and Google search results services
No indication if this includes those medical back brace insurance scam calls that seem to have taken over lately, but here is hoping.
More coverage here
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Friday March 29 2019, @12:53PM (1 child)
A settlement? Really? A SETTLEMENT?
There should be no settlement for anything less than a televised public flogging of all individuals involved.
Why just yesterday I was getting the exact same GlaDOS sounding "Apple Support" robocaller EVERY FUCKING HALF HOUR.
There is NO excuse for this shit, it is not even just advertising or scamming, it is outright HARASSMENT.
Every single telespammer that calls you, the message you should really hear is "Hi, this is Rachel from Cardholder services, your lawmakers and the phone companies are corrupt jokes, and I'm going to keep calling you at all hours over and over again until the end of the universe BECAUSE I CAN!"
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 29 2019, @05:52PM
http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=37#2003-10-14 [sluggy.com]
(3 strips of Pete obviously blowing some steam)