Insurance telemarketers fined $225M for a billion robocalls

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(Boston Herald) The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers.

The FCC said John Spiller and Jakob Mears made the calls through two businesses. State attorneys general of Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas also sued the two men and their companies, Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, in federal court in Texas for violating the federal law governing telemarketing, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

The FCC said the robocalls offered plans from major insurers like Aetna and UnitedHealth with an automated message. If consumers pressed a button for more information, however, they were transferred to a call center that sold plans not connected to those companies.

Reached by phone at the number listed for JSquared, Spiller declined to comment. He declined to provide contact information for Mears and said neither would speak before talking to an attorney.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/06/09/insurance-telemarketers-fined-225m-for-a-billion-robocalls/

[Beakybird]

1. Yeah!

[sheshe2]

2. I never answer my land line anymore.

If someone needs to reach me they have my cell.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. you get scam calls on cell phones too. normaly id say , lock them up,

but if they are in jail, they cant pay their fine , so pay up and then lock em up. on edit, the fcc should also go after the ones in the call centers too also.

[lagomorph777]

4. +1 Pay up and go away for a very long time.