by J. Tyson Covey - July 27, 2022

In its latest salvo to combat illegal robocalling, the FCC proposed a
$116 million fine for an alleged scheme mixing robocalling with
traffic pumping to fund telephone denial of service attacks (TDoS)
against other companies. In the Matter of Thomas Dorsher, ChariTel
Inc., Ontel Inc., and ScammerBlaster Inc., Notice of Apparent
Liability, FCC 22-57 (rel. July 14, 2022). The alleged scheme at issue
involved Thomas Dorsher, ChariTel Inc., Ontel Inc., and ScammerBlaster
Inc.

As the FCC described it, in a two-month period at the start of 2021,
ChariTel made about 10 million prerecorded voice message calls
(robocalls) to toll free numbers without the recipients' consent. If
the recipient did not terminate the call, these robocalls would play
the prerecorded message continuously for up to 10 hours, effectively
taking a line out of service and costing the toll free service
provider an opportunity to talk to actual customers on that
line. Ironically, the robocalls at issue purported to be public
service announcements to warn against scam calls, and encouraged
recipients to report such calls.

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