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Miami man made nearly 100 million robocalls. Now he's paying a big price. [View all]
Hat tip, Ann Coulter: https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter
Miami man made nearly 100 million robocalls. Now he's paying a big price.
BY ROB WILE
rwile@miamiherald.com
May 11, 2018 07:00 AM
Updated 1 hour 52 minutes ago
If there were a Guinness World Record for robocalls, a Miami man may have set it. ... And now he's paying the price. ... The FCC has fined Adrian Abramovich $120 million for setting up a program that made nearly 100 million robocalls between 2015 and 2016.
“Abramovich is the perpetrator of one of the largest — and most dangerous — illegal robocalling campaigns that the Commission has ever investigated,” the FCC said in June, when it handed down its citation against him. The fine amount was finalized Thursday.
Abramovich's scheme involved calling unsuspecting customers with a prerecorded message instructing them to “Press 1” to hear more about an “exclusive” vacation deal offered by a well-known travel or hospitality company, like TripAdvisor, Expedia, Marriott, or Hilton, the FCC said.
They would then be transferred to a call center, where live operators would attempt to sell them one or more “discounted” vacation packages, like timeshares. ... On his busiest day, October 19, 2016, Abramovich made 2,121,106 calls. The fewest calls he made on a single week day was 644,051; he averaged over 200,000 calls on Saturdays.
BY ROB WILE
rwile@miamiherald.com
May 11, 2018 07:00 AM
Updated 1 hour 52 minutes ago
If there were a Guinness World Record for robocalls, a Miami man may have set it. ... And now he's paying the price. ... The FCC has fined Adrian Abramovich $120 million for setting up a program that made nearly 100 million robocalls between 2015 and 2016.
“Abramovich is the perpetrator of one of the largest — and most dangerous — illegal robocalling campaigns that the Commission has ever investigated,” the FCC said in June, when it handed down its citation against him. The fine amount was finalized Thursday.
Abramovich's scheme involved calling unsuspecting customers with a prerecorded message instructing them to “Press 1” to hear more about an “exclusive” vacation deal offered by a well-known travel or hospitality company, like TripAdvisor, Expedia, Marriott, or Hilton, the FCC said.
They would then be transferred to a call center, where live operators would attempt to sell them one or more “discounted” vacation packages, like timeshares. ... On his busiest day, October 19, 2016, Abramovich made 2,121,106 calls. The fewest calls he made on a single week day was 644,051; he averaged over 200,000 calls on Saturdays.
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