FTC Targets Group That Made Billions of Robocalls

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 4, 2015 @06:25PM from the don't-call-me-bro dept.

coondoggie writes Given the amount of time the FTC and others have put into curing the robocall problem, it is disheartening to hear that a group of companies for almost a year have been making billions of illegal robocalls. The Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general today said they have settled charges against a Florida-based cruise line company and seven other companies that averaged 12 million to 15 million illegal sales calls a day between October 2011 through July 2012, according to the joint complaint filed by the FTC and the states.

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Re: Have Settled Charges? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-04 19:03 · Score: 5, Informative

However as is typical in these cases, while the settlement imposes a civil penalty of $7.73 million against CCL, it will be partially suspended after CCL pays only $500,000. Other companies involved such as Linked Service Solutions got a $5 million civil penalty but will only be required to pay $25,000.
Why does government even pretend to work for us?