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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 03 2020, @12:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the cut-them-off-at-the-source dept.

DOJ sues US telecom providers for connecting Indian robocall scammers:

The US Department of Justice has filed lawsuits (PDF and PDF) against two small telecommunications providers that have allegedly connected hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls from Indian call centers to US residents. The feds want a New York federal judge to cut off the companies' access to the US telephone network. The government says a judge has already issued a restraining order against one of the defendants.

Fraudulent robocalls are a serious problem in the United States—and the Justice Department says two US companies contributed significantly to the problem. Over a 23-day period in May and June of last year, for example, defendant TollFreeDeals connected 720 million calls to US numbers. According to the Justice Department, 425 million of the calls lasted for one second or less—suggesting that many were unwanted.

The feds say that during those two months, TollFreeDeals connected 182 million calls from a single India-based call center. Of these calls, more than 90 percent appeared to come from one of 1,000 source numbers. And of those numbers, more than 80 percent have been associated with fraudulent robocalls.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @06:16AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @06:16AM (#953039)

    That's right. RaceCountry of birth is important when comparing two different people who have absolutely nothing else in common.

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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by Nuke on Monday February 03 2020, @09:56AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Monday February 03 2020, @09:56AM (#953079)

    India has a culture of defrauding. Check out some hookers' websites and see the number who say they won't see Indians - even the Indian hookers don't like them.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 03 2020, @06:15PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday February 03 2020, @06:15PM (#953214) Journal

    It a blatant lie, anyway. Every single person he listed was born in the US.