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Feds Crack Down on Brothers Behind 45 Million Illegal Robocalls

posted by martyb on Monday July 19 2021, @11:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the thought-they-were-really-cleaning-up dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Feds crack down on brothers behind 45 million illegal robocalls:

Three New Jersey brothers will pay $1.6 million to settle charges of instigating more than 45 million illegal robocalls nationwide, including to tens of millions of Americans on the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Registry, the agency announced on Friday.

The siblings also agreed to a permanent ban on telemarketing and will hand over a residential property to resolve the agency's allegations, made in a complaint filed by Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC.

According to the FTC's suit, Joseph, Sean and Raymond Carney initiated more than 45 million illegal telemarketing calls to people across the U.S. between January 2018 and March 2019 to pitch a line of septic tank cleaning products. Most of the calls, or 31 million, were placed to numbers on the FTC's registry of people who don't want to receive marketing calls.

[...] Telemarketers working on behalf of the brothers falsely told consumers they were calling from an environmental company to offer free information on their septic tank cleaning products, the complaint charges.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:21PM (#1158043)

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    Well, OK, if you say so but some of us ACs don't find it very challenging when you just bend over and beg for your daily asswhacks. Just sayin'.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @09:33PM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday July 19 2021, @09:33PM (#1158051)

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