<div dir="ltr">It is so bad that I am not above us bribing politicians in foreign countries to crack down on this.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Monday, U.S. FCC Chairman Pai and Canadian CRTC Chairperson Scott made <br>
the first official cross-border SHAKEN/STIR call.<br>
<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/pai-scott-make-first-official-cross-border-shakenstir-call" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fcc.gov/document/pai-scott-make-first-official-cross-border-shakenstir-call</a><br>
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Today, the U.S. FCC announced a proposed nearly $10 million fine for <br>
spoofed robocalls.<br>
<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-nearly-10-million-fine-spoofed-robocalls" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-nearly-10-million-fine-spoofed-robocalls</a><br>
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A U.S. telemarketing firm spoofed the caller-id of a competitor to make <br>
approximately 47,610 political robocalls shortly before a California State <br>
Assembly primary election.<br>
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I think this case is somewhat unusual for robocall spoofing, because the <br>
alleged perpetrator, victims, and 'crime scene' occured within the same <br>
jurisdiction.<br>
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While the FCC likes to announce large enforcement actions in splashy <br>
press releases, its actually bad about collecting fines. The FCC must <br>
rely on the Justice Department to initiate separate prosecution to <br>
enforce payment from non-license holders because the FCC can't do that <br>
itself.  So don't expect anyone to actually pay soon (or ever).<br>
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