FCC: Robocaller Should Pay Nearly $13M Fine For Illegal, Spoofed Robocalls

The FCC has suggested that Scott Rhodes, whom the agency has named as a robocaller who placed “unlawful, spoofed robocalls to target a community grappling with the recent murder of a local woman, threaten a journalist and newspaper, and attempt to influence a jury” should pay a nearly $13 million fine for those calls to people in six states, including California, Florida, and Virginia.

Four FCC Commissioners voted in favor of the action. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel dissented on the grounds that the fine should have been higher. 

Read the FCC’s statement here.

Read Commissioner Rosenworcel’s statement here.