Updated May 7, 2024
The FCC’s Robocall Response Team has announced that its recent actions with the Federal Trade Commission against international robocalls appear to have reduced apparently illegal robocall traffic across multiple networks. The agencies issued letters warning gateway providers to shut down the on-ramps for international illegal robocall traffic. (News Release about – Jan. 30, 2024)
(January 11, 2020)
Yet another Flori-Duh based scam busted by the Feds: “Multi million dollar judgement against local telemarketers for years of bogus robo calls offering cruise deals outta the Bahamas.”
Too bad these travel scams continue and FLORIDA-Duh remains one of the national hot spots for travel scams and white collar crimes?
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
Three individuals and a telephone call center that helped Florida-based Grand Bahama Cruise Line LLC (GBCL) and others to make millions of illegal robocalls to consumers settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint and are permanently barred from making telemarketing robocalls. The FTC will litigate in federal court against GBCL and six other defendants involved in the massive operation, who have not agreed to settle.
“This case shows the FTC’s sustained effort to tackle illegal robocall operations that bombard consumers with unsolicited calls,” said Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “It also demonstrates that anyone who provides substantial assistance to illegal robocall operations may be liable for substantial civil penalties.”
According to the FTC’s complaint, the defendants involved in the GBCL operation made or facilitated millions of illegal calls to consumers nationwide pitching free cruise vacations between Florida and the Bahamas. Starting in 2014, the defendants operated their own in-house call center, employing telemarketers to contact consumers nationwide.
The FTC alleged that, through 2017, the GBCL operation hired various call centers, including several other defendants, which marketed the cruise vacation packages. GBCL’s telemarketing operation allegedly bought call lists from lead generators that conducted illegal survey robocalls to identify potential customers.
In addition to delivering millions of illegal robocalls through 2018, the defendants never scrubbed their lists against the agency’s Do Not Call Registry, and called phone numbers on the Registry, the FTC alleged. The defendants also illegally called consumers who asked not to be called, and failed to transmit accurate caller ID information, in violation of the agency’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR).
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