Cheaters posing as a FCC fraud team call FCC will be fined

If for some reason you decide that you want to start a fraud call surgery, one thing you need to try to avoid, if possible, is to call the people you present themselves. Unfortunately, no one warned the two self -oposure when they decided to pose as members of the Fraud Prevention Team and eventually called FCC employees. Now the company that enabled all the fraudulent operation is staring at a $ 4.5 million in fineS

Here’s how all this thing went down According to FCC: Two people who identified by the names “Christian Mitchell” and “Henry Walker” have registered accounts at Telnyx, a provider of VoIP services based in Texas. The two claimed to live at the same address in Toronto, Canada, despite the fact that their IP addresses nailed them to Scotland and England, and they both had email addresses registered in the Marioocop123.com domain.

Despite the indicators that something fishing was on foot, Telnyx allowed the two to register accounts anyway that they used to launch a very short -lived spam campaign. For two days in February 2024, the two scammers have put 1797 impostor calls who claim to come from the Federal Communication Communication Commission – something that does not exist.

Most of the callers ended with a pre -recorded voicemail left in their incoming mail. For the few unhappy souls they have taken, FCC said they have been attempted to “threaten, intimidate, and to fry.” One victim reported that scammers wanted to pay $ 1,000 on Google Cards to avoid a prison for “state crimes”.

Somehow, at least a few of these 1797 calls that the fraudsters put, they were able to hit the phones of FCC employees and their families. FCC is still not sure how this happened as the agency requested He does not “publish or otherwise share personal phone number of staff.”

However, this happened, it seems that he has put the whole operation on the FCC radar and is now descending on Telnyx for not complying with the rules of your customers designed to prevent malicious participants from using these networks in the first place. According to the FCC investigation, the VoIP company only collected a name, email address, physical address and IP address from the candidates without a verification process to confirm this information. This, as it turns out, is how you ultimately facilitate the spam surgery.

Telnyx denies that he failed to meet FCC standards by issuing a statement This claims to have “done everything and more than FCC is needed for a know-regulator (“ KYC ”) and procedures to properly check customers.” FCC does not see it this way and suggest a fine of $ 4,492,500 Against Telnyx for the whole fiasco. This will take many gift cards on Google to pay off.