~ $204 per spoofed call. On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 10:09 AM Kain, Becki (.) <bka...@ford.com> wrote:
> Would be nice to have these stopped. I received 10 of them yesterday, > pretending to be apple icloud support > > > > *From:* NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Javier J > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:38 PM > *To:* Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> > *Cc:* nanog <nanog@nanog.org> > *Subject:* Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > > > > It is so bad that I am not above us bribing politicians in > foreign countries to crack down on this. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, U.S. FCC Chairman Pai and Canadian CRTC Chairperson Scott made > the first official cross-border SHAKEN/STIR call. > > https://www.fcc.gov/document/pai-scott-make-first-official-cross-border-shakenstir-call > > > Today, the U.S. FCC announced a proposed nearly $10 million fine for > spoofed robocalls. > > https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-nearly-10-million-fine-spoofed-robocalls > > A U.S. telemarketing firm spoofed the caller-id of a competitor to make > approximately 47,610 political robocalls shortly before a California State > Assembly primary election. > > I think this case is somewhat unusual for robocall spoofing, because the > alleged perpetrator, victims, and 'crime scene' occured within the same > jurisdiction. > > While the FCC likes to announce large enforcement actions in splashy > press releases, its actually bad about collecting fines. The FCC must > rely on the Justice Department to initiate separate prosecution to > enforce payment from non-license holders because the FCC can't do that > itself. So don't expect anyone to actually pay soon (or ever). > >
