ROBOCALLER GETS RECORD FINE

Just to show there is some justice in this world, federal regulators last week identified the man behind one of the largest illegal robocalling campaigns they have ever investigated. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $120 million fine for Adrian Abramovich, a Miami resident, said to be single-handedly responsible for almost 97 million robocalls over just the last three months of 2016. Officials say Abramovich auto-dialed hundreds of millions of phone calls to landlines and cellphones in the U.S. and Canada and at one point even overwhelmed an emergency medical paging service. Making prerecorded telemarketing phone calls to people without their prior consent is prohibited. According to the FCC, the robocalls made by Abramovich through his ambiguously named companies would show up “spoofed” as if they came from a phone number with the same area code and the same first three digits of the recipient’s number.
* 97 million robocalls, or nearly as many as the political robocalls last year.
* Don’t hold your breath. Justice is when this guy actually writes the $120 million check. Justice is when his ass is in prison for ten years.
* He must have the money. I mean, just imagine his phone bill.
* Wait – $120 million is only $1.24 fine for each call. Not nearly enough.
* What they should make him do is, for the rest of his life, spend the day physically dialing every person who ever got one of his robocalls and personally apologizing.
* Thanks, FCC. Now can you do something about the cost of cable TV?