Re: DOJ files suit to enforce FCC penalty for robocalls

[Dovid Bender <dovid () telecurve com>]

We have telco's registered in the US, Cyprus and Israel. Lately I'm Europe
we have been getting emails from people using protonmail. The conversation
dies one we ask for business registration documents.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 16:14 Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> My normal test for this is to register a new domain name and leave my
> whois info public.
>
> Over the span of 1-2 weeks I will usually get 50-100 calls from people
> with a certain accent asking for a  mispronunciation of my name and if I
> need a website developed.  Then I forward them over to my spam recording
> line.
>
> I registered a handful of new domains this week, and I've had less than 5
> calls so far.
>
> -A
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:13 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/21/21 10:57 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > > The multi-million dollar fines announced with great fanfaire by the
> > > Federal Communication Commission are almost never collected. The FCC
> > > doesn't have enforcement authority to collect fines. The FCC usually
> > > withholds license renewals until penalties are paid. If the violator
> > > doesn't have any FCC licenses (or doesn't care), the FCC is powerless.
> > >
> > > The FCC refers uncollected penalties to the Department of Justice. In
> > > the past, DOJ didn't prioritize uncollected penalties and most fines
> > > were never enforced.
> > >
> > >
> > > The Department of Justice Files Suit to Recover $9.9 Million
> > > Forfeiture Penalty for Nearly 5,000 Illegally Spoofed Robocalls
> > https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-suit-recover-forfeiture-penalty-nearly-5000-illegally-spoofed
> > >
> >
> > So has any of the STIR/SHAKEN stuff that was mandated made any
> > difference on the ground yet? I assume this is different than what you
> > posted about though.
> >
> > Mike