The Federal Communications Commission today issued a record fine of $299,997,000 against a robocall operation that specialized in auto warranty scam calls, the FCC announced, calling it “the largest illegal robocall operation the agency has ever investigated.”

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    The US puts people behind bars for nearly no reason, but someone who does not pay a >1m fine and continues to do illegal stuff runs around free?

    Here it would be one day of prison for the equivalent of two days income. Put those spammers behind bars where they belong.

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            They actually changed the rate a short time ago. Before that it was a 1:1 relationship, but it sent poor people to prison for too long for simple things like being repeatedly caught without a valid ticket on a train or bus.

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        1 year ago

        If your crime is financial in nature and widespread you dont go to jail.

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        The problem here is that the influential people have secretaries or butlers that simply screen such calls. If representatives or senators would get bombed with unfiltered spam calls like normal people, those spammers would work in chain gangs until they drop dead.