http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533970545/man-accused-of-making-millions-of-robocalls-faces-biggest-ever-fcc-fine




Federal regulators on Thursday said they've identified "the perpetrator of one of the largest ... illegal robocalling campaigns" they have ever investigated.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $120 million fine for a Miami resident said to be single-handedly responsible for almost 97 million robocalls over just the last three months of 2016.

Officials say Adrian Abramovich auto-dialed hundreds of millions of phone calls to landlines and cellphones in the U.S. and Canada and at one point even overwhelmed an emergency medical paging service.

Making prerecorded telemarketing phone calls to people without their prior consent is prohibited. So is making telemarketing calls to emergency phone lines and deliberately falsifying caller ID to disguise identity with the intent to harm or defraud consumers.

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According to the FCC, the robocalls made by Abramovich through his ambiguously named companies (Marketing Strategy Leaders or Marketing Leaders) would show up "spoofed" as if they came from a phone number with the same area code and the same first three digits of the recipient's number.

If the recipients answered, they'd get a recording offering an "exclusive" vacation deal from prominent travel companies such as Expedia, Marriott, Hilton or TripAdvisor — instructing them to "Press 1" to learn more. But pressing 1 would instead land people on a line with a call center hawking "discounted" vacation packages and time-shares unaffiliated with any of those brands.

According to FCC documents, TripAdvisor investigated some of the robocalls that purported to offer that company's deals and found call centers that it said were based in Mexico.

Abramovich now faces the largest penalty ever proposed by the FCC, according to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. The fine is for Abramovich's unlawful caller ID spoofing, the FCC says. The agency's Enforcement Bureau has also issued a citation to Abramovich, and the documents say his "mass robocalling campaigns violate the Communications Act, and his misrepresentations in the prerecorded messages constitute criminal wire fraud."

Abramovich now has 30 days to respond to the FCC, which is expected to finalize the investigation and penalties in the following months.

Time to enact the death penalty for Robocalls.

Surprisingly seems a lot of robocalls have stopped now.

i was forced to change phone numbers - i got a NEW phone number in 2016 spammed up to a few times DAILY. before i had been too poor to have a phone.

i missed a good interview for Hiring because it came during a phone number switch - which the telephone company had wanted to charge $15 for, but remitted apply in my case

btw, FL has been doing that 30 years. 60 minutes in it's hay day reported on it.

email spam was made illegal during Reagan: however during Clinton the FCC turned to a bunch of media controlled liars promoting PC's never tune in to TV signals) - Clinton gave rights to Microsoft and a few others to "control all of america's email" - which quickly became porn spam and pro-microsoft pro-chinese product spam which ... some say ... is actually from Microsoft/COX

(note in Germany PC can watch regular TV, no set-top box needed, due to their FCC)

Microsoft, Google, Apple, COX, Veriszon are all definitely responsible for freaking the software to cause time loss of (indie developers and forced upgrades) and also email spam.

in not a small way these companies were made "Kings in America" purely by fact they never had to follow any standards and attacking the consumer was never a matter the democrat controlled courts (some say Microsoft controlled courts) never allowed to even Open

FCC is putting a gun to their head for the money

FCC never said they are putting a stop to it

Trump should fire the obama/clinton FCC

one of America's worst problems has been (and as televised as a Busch NUCLEAR threat to china)

1) eurasians steal usa technology and pervert it (and ny,ny imports the result) - and xxxxx (unknown, the telcos know who really run these) use it to plant poison in any consumer friendly free software. often it's democrat colleges that sponsor "code terror" and strong traces Microsoft was involved in the attacks

2) americans (and europeans) NEVER GET PAID for technology work unless they are politically connected - a large ammount of technology in use today was never paid for. the whole thing is set up to benefit Microsoft et al to steal code (how involves keys and servers but ultimately price, customer reach, "pre-installs", gov Grants, and many sordid techniques).

3) microsoft GETS PAID IF THEY SELL OR NOT, AND COLLETS AT GUNPOINT (by taxes)

today's FCC (since CLinton)

has allow finanancially HOSTILE (very hostile, potentially militarily too) countries to install hardware and personel into the CORE of USA's telephone systems and (in democrat areas) at each substation and in home equipment

there is simply no doubt there are massive implications to what havoc they can cause.

there is simply no doubt USA, the world's best chip maker and strongest telephone company of the past: HAD NO NEED FOR ANY foreign technology thereof. the technology that got in was by "dumping" and by patent theft

K Dawg Wrote:
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> Time to enact the death penalty for Robocalls.
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> Surprisingly seems a lot of robocalls have stopped
> now.


^ This.

Kill him. No trial required. Just kill him.