The Federal Communications Commission smacks a robo-call network with a $120 million fine for tricking people into buying deceiving vacation packages.
The FCC found a Miami man was responsible for orchestrating nearly 97 million calls over the last three months.
The automated messages offered people an exclusive vacation deal, but once the call was transferred to operators a completely unrelated vacation plan was proposed.
The scheme tricked people into spending up to thousands of dollars, and the FCC says this is the largest fine they have ever issued.
Now if they’ll stop or fine all the other robo-calls I receive on a daily basis.
So I guess I have to be duped or scammed out of thousands of dollars before they’ll stop all the nuisance calls.
No prison time?
What, no “intent”?
Have an old whistle that I use whenever these delightful people call. I have been called a few choice
names, but the entertainment value is well worth their hearing damage.
How many people fell for this. 120 million worth ?
We got two postcards yesterday (my husband has since shredded them so I am minus all details) about a class action suit against Mike Huckabee for robocalls he made pushing a movie. I remember the movie had the word “courage” in it. If I was to guess, I will bet this is the Freedom from Religion group doing this. It was not the FCC.
The movie I referenced above was “Last Ounce of Courage” described as a 2012 American Christian Christmas movie.
Will these a-holes pay up and where will the money go? To perpetuate the FCC or back to the actual consumers? You know the answer already.
I received one of the calls today. So they aren’t scared. What really pisses me off is the caller ID shows a number of some innocent person. I know, because I have had people call me asking why I called them.
I pushed #9 on my cell phone one day when receiving a robo call and was connected to a live person so I politely asked him to please take me off his call list. he then proceeded to cuss me out and tell me where I could put my request. the robo calling is out of hand. Hi this is Cindy from card services, We see you’ve recently stayed at one of our resorts, IRS has law suit against you! etc…to steal a line from the song reunited…wish I could crawl right through the telephone line, except I’d give them a good beatdown!
Use nomorobo.com. Phone will ring once if it is a robo, then it will cut them off. Free, too.