The FCC hit the enterprise with the 'record-breaking' penalty of $299,997,000 for auto warranty scam robocalls made in 2021, the agency said in a Thursday press release
The FCC accused the enterprise of committing violations such as "making pre-recorded voice calls to mobile phones without prior express consent, placing telemarketing calls without written consent, dialing numbers included on the National Do Not Call Registry, failing to identify the caller at the start of the message, and failing to provide a call-back number that allowed consumers to opt out of future calls," according to the agency.
FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. On the Federal Trade Commission’s website, it said over 221 million phone numbers are listed the National Do Not Call Registry. The robocaller has been hit with allegations of "using misleading caller ID to disguise the enterprise’s role and prompt consumers to answer" as well, the FCC alleged.The enterprise’s alleged scheme involved conducting over 5 billion robocalls with over 1 million caller ID numbers, according to the FCC. The agency said over 500 million unsuspecting phone numbers received those scam calls.
Robocalls are at an all-time high. Organizations that track them say the pandemic gave us a small break, but as we started getting back to business, so did these robocallers.
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