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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.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @08:57PM
>You are still doom crying
so saying all the world's thousands of telcos won't follow a US standard is "doom crying" to you. gotcha
>any tangible reasons beyond your feeling that nobody would play ball
not at all. I'm sure a few would play ball, like they did by adopting the american analog TV and then digital TV standards, followed by emission standards, followed by our measuring units, followed our cell frequencies, which is why you don't need special phones to have them work worldwide.
>why there can't be ANY kind of system in place to accomplish the end goal of attenuating spam calls
we do have many various systems implemented by different telcos. they have been in place for decades and are constantly being upgraded. some are implemented by carriers, some by the telcos themselves. you have zero idea of what you're talking about.
https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/scam-shield [t-mobile.com]