The FCC says it is the largest such network that it has ever investigated.
The agency says the globe-spanning operation violated U.S. telecom laws when it made more than 5 billion robocalls to more than half a billion phone numbers over the course of three months in 2021.
But the FCC says that the operation had been in existence for even longer and had stretched back to 2018. The ringleaders of the operation, Roy Melvin Cox Jr. and Aaron Michael Jones, were repeat offenders and were under lifetime bans against making telemarketing calls. The FCC says they directed all U.S.-based voice providers to stop carrying traffic linked with certain members in the enterprise.The FCC says the matter will be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for collection if the parties do not pay the fine promptly.
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