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FCC wants to fine one man almost $13 million for making 6,000 robocalls:
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) typically fines robocallers, they're usually operations that involve shady companies. Not so with the agency's latest proposed action, which targets a single individual. On Thursday, the FCC said it wants to fine one man $12,910,000 for carrying out massive robocalling campaigns in six states. In all, the person made more than 6,000 calls in California, Flordia, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa and Virginia using an online tool that allowed them to mask their calls as coming from a local number.
[...] In one campaign, for instance, the person made 827 calls to people in the town of Brooklyn, Iowa, "following the murder of a local college student and the arrest of an illegal alien from Mexico for the crime." [...]The agency says the robocaller's racist messages talked about a "brown horde" that the murder victim would have wanted the town to "kill them all." The robocaller even went so far as to phone the parents of the victim.
(Score: 4, Funny) by epitaxial on Saturday February 01 2020, @07:14PM (1 child)
This guy pissed off Uncle Sam so the hammer came down. He really hates looking bad. Now a legion of people in India who do this 24x7 for years on end scamming people get no punishment. I usually harass the Indians who call and you know the Chinese voicemail scams? Press a few buttons and a person will pick up. I try and order wonton soup or fried rice. They don't find it very funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 01 2020, @08:02PM
They do get punishment, but Indian state is weak and police and judiciary are stretched thinly [businesstoday.in]. Remember this when next time you hear about India doing this or that in the news.
There is a good tv series about it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamtara_-_Sabka_Number_Ayega [wikipedia.org]