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."

Comments

Capital Punishment?

[Camel Pilot]

Since he has aggregately stole or taken away several human lifespans... I say capital punishment would be appropriate.

Re:Capital Punishment?

[Camel Pilot]

I completely disagree with you, since:
1. We should not practice eye for an eye.
2. He did not take away our lifespan, he took away our ability to be productive or "have fun". I think jail does that too.
3. We have partly ourselves to blame for making this easy to accomplish.

1. Assertion without justification
2. Taking away ones ability to be productive or "have fun" is stealing a piece of someones life of which they will never get back
3. This is like blaming a homeowner that is burglarized because he didn't lock the doors or have a security system installed and made it too easy on criminals. Totally illogical.

Re:Capital Punishment?

[Jon314]

What the hell is wrong with you? What glamor is there in getting gender reassignment surgery in prison? What glamor is there in being in prison?
Gender reassignment is a medical issue, not a fashion choice.

  Anonymous Cowards should be forced to do physical labor as a punishment for the stupid stuff they say while hiding. It would take away some of the glamor in it.

Re:Capital Punishment?

[ChrisMaple]

You misspelled "mental" as "medical".

Interesting

[Locke2005]

I get robocalls from spoofed caller IDs on a weekly basis. It's obvious that they are spoofing the caller ID, because the first 6 digits are exactly the same as my own number, and I don't know anybody whose phone number is close to mine! So... how do I go about getting the people that keep harassing me arrested and charged with violating the Truth in Caller ID Act? I can't ask for their real number to call them back on, because it's a recording -- it doesn't even give me a chance to request that they remove me from their list.