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I wish hacker groups would set their sights on these robocaller companies. They used to call my mom all the goddamn time when she was well into her senior years and didn’t understand that these things were scams. We found out she somehow had NINE car warranties because they just kept calling and banking on her senility.
It was all fun and games for them until I caught one of their calls one day, yelled at the dude profusely, and made them cancel every single one.
The unfortunate fact is that these fines will probably hang around doing nothing before they can actually collect, and by then, the company will have already evolved into something else.
These aren't some rinky dink operations, these are huge shell companies housed in office buildings with cubicles employing hundreds of scammers. It's part of an organized crime syndicate, and somewhere along the line there's some near-billionaire and a number of politicians behind the entire scheme. That's what they mean by the nebulous statement of it being "transnational."