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 <[email protected]> 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). >
