by Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The Federal Communications Commission, at its July 14, 2022 Open
Meeting, issued one of its largest proposed fines ever against an
individual and his companies that engaged in conduct that violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Commission's rules
prohibiting prerecorded voice message calls. The Notice of Apparent
Liability (NAL) proposed a penalty of $116,156,250 against Thomas
Dorsher and his companies ChariTel Inc., Ontel, Inc. and
ScammerBlaster, for sending 9,763,599 prerecorded voice message calls
to toll free (8YY) numbers without consent of the called parties.

The Commission's NAL outlines a brazen scheme by Dorsher using his
business relationship with a Local Exchange Carrier to originate
telephone calls to 8YY numbers for the primary purpose of generating
revenue from long distance carriers whose toll free customers received
these calls. Under this scheme, Dorsher caused millions of calls to be
placed with a prerecorded self-proclaimed "Public Service
Announcement" warning toll free customers about the dangers of illegal robocalls, and directing recipients to report robocalls to the FCC,
phone companies, and the Dorsher entities' website. The calls were
placed between January 1, 2021 and March 2, 2021.

https://tinyurl.com/25wcxex9

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