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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.
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?
What can't he do?!
Exercise good judgement.