FCC Imposes Record Forfeiture For Robocalls, Caller ID Spoofing

摘要

The FCC on March 17 voted unanimously to impose a $225 million forfeiture against Texas-based telemar-keters John C. Spiller and Jakob A. Mears, who used business names including Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, "for transmitting approximately 1 billion robocalls, many of them illegally spoofed, to sell short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans" during the first four and a half months of 2019, according to an agency press release."Mr. Spiller admitted to the USTelecom Industry Traceback Group that he made millions of spoofed calls per day and knowingly called consumers on the Do Not Call list as he believed that it was more profitable to target these consumers," the FCC said.