Posted on 03/29/2019 7:36:49 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The total amount of money secured by the Federal Trade Commission through court judgments in cases involving civil penalties for robocalls or National Do Not Call Registry-related violations, plus the sum requested for consumer redress in fraud-related cases, is $1.5 billion since 2004. It has collected $121 million of that total, said Ian Barlow, coordinator of the agency’s Do Not Call program, or about 8%. The agency operates the National Do Not Call Registry and regulates telemarketing. An FCC spokesman said his agency lacks the authority to enforce the forfeiture orders it issues and has passed all unpaid penalties to the Justice Department, which has the power to collect the fines.
...The agency in May 2018, for example, fined a Florida-based company and its top executive $120 million for making 100 million illegal robocalls during a three-month period in 2016. Agency records as of late December indicate that no funds had been collected.
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Spam calls aren’t made like normal calls are. I got a voice spam call on my new phone before I connected it to a carrier. In other words, it didn’t even have a phone number and I still got a spam call on it. So however it is connecting, it’s not doing it through normal channels.
Another problem is that most of the spam calls I get don’t even reply if I do pick up the phone. I don’t know what they get out of it but I can’t respond in any way much less offer to talk to them for a fee.
I’m not knocking your efforts to come up with a solution, conservatism_IS_compassion, but I don’t think that one will do it.
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