FCC fines robocaller $120 million

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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FCC fines robocaller $120 million for making nearly 100 million calls

I’d like to think this will do some good, but I’m too much of a realist.

OTOH, I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten a few dozen calls starting out, “Congratulations for your recent stay at one of our resorts, you qualify…” and it sounds like this the the asswipe responsible. I’ll just have to wait and see if there are any more.

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Not nearly enough. Needs to be complete confiscation of all assets, torture, then the elimination of his entire line unto the third generation.

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I get these goddamn “neighborhood” calls all the time cept it never works because I still have my Indiana area code, but live in Florida. When I see 260 and it’s not my parents I just ignore it.

I wonder how many people it DOESN’T work on like me…

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Go after the customers of said telemarketers too. IME most of them are shadier than the telemarketers.

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I knew a actual real life pimp who decided to retire because his favorite girl wanted ot get married have kids and such …So he became a telemarketer …he told me more than once that people had more respect for pimps than telemarketer ,

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Yup, that’s me, too. If I get a call from Montana, it’s either the alumni office, a wrong number, or a scam. But calls from the Cleveland area are all legitimate.

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I hope they fined him extra for that stupid man bun.

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I don’t get it. “Customers” are usually victims of crooked comeons. How do they become shady for being gullible?

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The robocall guy was providing his service to Mexico-based operations that were taking the calls if anyone responded, and selling holidays or timeshares. Those operations were the customers of the robocall guy (they paid him), not the recipients of the phone calls.

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Since he probably can’t pay, I’m sure some CIA torturer is getting rusty and needs someone to practice on.

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They should issue him with an old rotary dial phone, and have him call everyone personally to apologize.

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Unfortunately, Rachel/Heather/etc from cardholder services is still at large.

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“If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to: Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!”

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So, let’s see, the postage to send a one pound box of pressurized semiliquid human feces would be…

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How dare anyone suggest torture, when suffocation in nitrogen is a completely ethical method for disposing of unwanted telemarketers?

Part of me does think that the death penalty is a completely reasonable penalty for people that steal thousands of man-years of lifetime from others. People get it for taking only 50 years of life from others; why is it different when the time is stolen a minute at a time?

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An interesting argument. If he wasted 10 seconds of time per call, that’s around 30 years. So punish him as if had held one person against their will in his basement for 30 years.

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I’m evil. Accept it.

I’ve been told that my calls come up “Probably Spam” just because it has an 800 number, so they were (totally justifiably) reluctant to pick up. WTF? It’s supposed to come up with the name of a company they already do business with so their blanket Do Not Call registration still is ignored. I’ve also been asked, “Are you a robot?” No, ma’am, and I even wrote this script myself so I’d sound less robotic.

For reasons I can’t go back to work until August, but I have savings and only need to last another 13 months before I get my full Social Security, which pays better. I’m in no rush.

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I had T-Mobile for a while and then switched back to Sprint, huge mistake as soon as I did that I started getting like a million robocalls a day, I think the two companies are also undergoing a merger. Anyway I get all the fake local calls and even same first six digits as my number calls constantly, probably sometimes 20 a day. I signed up for the Do-Not-Call list and gave it a month like it said and the call volume from telemarketers and scammers has, if anything.

Hanging is too good for them in my opinion.

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No, it comes up as probably spam because lots of people who got your calls and didn’t want them reported them as such.
When PG&E mass calls to report a flex alert, I’m sure they call from an 800 number and it never gets blocked. They also leave a message. Do you?

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There are two possibilitiesl

Abramovich has less than 120-mill and just laughed.
Abramovich has more than 120-mill and just laughed.

And one certainty. He’ll be back in business soon.

And one impossibility. He will sped one minute in jail.