Robocall scammer faces $120-million fine

There is nothing more annoying than these " Robocalls" I had received a few in the past...... when i picked up and said hello, this machine starts speaking to me, I immediately end the call. Great , now I can answer in peace, knowing that the culprit is going to be fined big time, I think he is going to sit behind bars for some time, as the fine is humongous and I doubt he will be able to cough up ?
 
I just put the phone on speaker, get on with my work, and when they ask for my input I say "I'm sorry, the line is bad, could you start again?"
Rinse and repeat until they give up.
 
supersunbird said:
How do you do that with a robot? :p
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It's (robocall) a robot dialler silly, not a robot lol. The machine calls you and if you answer, it transfers you to a human :p
I know the example here was slightly different but that's besides the point. The calls i've had have no recorded message - you are put on hold for 5 seconds until a human answers.
 
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Sabre Wulf said:
It's (robocall) a robot dialler silly, not a robot lol. The machine calls you and if you answer, it transfers you to a human :p
I know the example here was slightly different but that's besides the point. The calls i've had have no recorded message - you are put on hold for 5 seconds until a human answers.
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I have had prerecorded messages and this is what this article is also about from what I can tell (and not just the dialing where he was spoofing the from) .
 
supersunbird said:
I have had prerecorded messages and this is what this article is also about from what I can tell (and not just the dialing where he was spoofing the from) .
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Sure, but CLEARLY not what I was talking about!
 
Have received one of these , annoying
 
kianm said:
Have received one of these , annoying
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Just received my first this week. As supersunbird said - a machine spewing out marketing twak. I left it to do it's thing then it hung up afterwards.
 
backstreetboy said:
^^ people not on the national out out database...
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Yes, I'm on the opt out database. Why would that stop them?
 
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