Two Texans are getting held accountable for all the robocalls that never seem to go away. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined two Texas telemarketers $225 million for making approximately 1 billion robocalls in under five months in 2019.
This is the largest fine the FCC has ever administered.
The robocalls falsely claimed to sell short-term insurance plans from well-known health insurance companies such as Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna.
“John C. Spiller and Jakob A. Mears, who used business names including Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, transmitted the spoofed robocalls across the country during the first four-and-a-half months of 2019,” the FCC said in a statement.
“Mr. Spiller admitted to the USTelecom Industry Traceback Group that he made millions of spoofed calls per day and knowingly called consumers on the Do Not Call list as he believed that it was more profitable to target these consumers.”
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