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Florida Man Behind 100 Million Robocalls Hit With $120 Million FCC Fine (chicagotribune.com)
In a massive strike, the Federal Communications Commission issued a $120 million fine on a massive robocall spoofing operation it deemed a threat to public safety. From a report: The FCC announced Thursday morning that it would leverage the fine against Adrian Abramovich, a Miami man who the commission said made almost 100 million spoofed robocalls over a three-month period at the end of 2016. The FCC argued that Abramovich's operation made the phony calls to trick consumers into answering them and listening to his advertising messages. The fine was based on 80,000 spoofed calls the commission had verified.
A complaint filed by the FCC against Abramovich in June 2017 alleged he had broken the Truth in Caller ID Act -- which prohibits callers from falsifying caller ID information to disguise their identity with intent to harm or defraud -- in perpetrating "one of the largest -- and most dangerous -- illegal robocalling campaigns that the commission has ever investigated."
A complaint filed by the FCC against Abramovich in June 2017 alleged he had broken the Truth in Caller ID Act -- which prohibits callers from falsifying caller ID information to disguise their identity with intent to harm or defraud -- in perpetrating "one of the largest -- and most dangerous -- illegal robocalling campaigns that the commission has ever investigated."
I don't believe in capital punishment, not when there is something a LOT worse...Hoe Squad. In the south we have farm prisons and hoe squad, where they chunk your ass out in a field at the crack of dawn and work your ass like a dog until dusk....day after day after day.
This is a hell of a deterrent, I even had to LMAO at an episode of cops where they chased a criminal in a car covered in flames who refused to stop until he crossed the border to the next state. When the cops asked him "Man what is wrong with you? You could have killed yourself over a simple theft charge, why didn't you just stop?" and he said "Didn't want to go to the hoe squad" and promptly confessed to a robbery in the state he had just made it to LOL.
You want to teach someone that what they did wasn't the smartest thing? Throw their ass on a hoe squad, trust me they won't forget it.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Dickering over what this man did or how he should be punished is silly.
The real question is this: How can we design a system where, continuously, profitability is [nearly] only possible by playing according to well established rules?
Concretely, why aren't unknown phone callers required to submit Hashcash solutions, so as to render it resource-intensive to spam people? Why isn't there an audio CAPTCHA system, where the caller has to answer a question?
Come on!
This is the age of digital communication. It's time to update the communications protocols; if our solution is political rather than technical (e.g., we rely on reactionary regulatory agencies or Congressional "inquiries"), then we're fucked by definition. We can do better.
Oh good, he owes money he doesn't have and thus doesn't have to pay. So what? Give him life in prison or the death penalty and see if anyone still wants to make robocalls?
You know what else works really well? In Saudi Arabia, they will chop of the hand of people convicted of theft. It's more than just a deterrent, it actually makes it much more difficult to steal again. Impossible, in fact, if you get caught twice. Fuck yeah.
Also makes it virtually impossible for that person to ever hold a respectable or half-way decent job and virtually dooming him to a life of ostracism, poverty, and whatever crimes he can still commit. At the very least he is now dependent on government support for survival.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
What can't he do?!
Exercise good judgement.