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FTC shuts down four robocallers

March 28, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission has won court settlements that will shut down four robocalling operations that were responsible for billions of illegal robocalls, the agency said.

Under court orders issued this week, the companies and individuals are banned from both robocalling and most telemarketing activities and will pay millions in fines. The FTC said that the defendant in one of the cases provided it with the software platform that it was providing to others for robocalling, which had resulted in more than one billion illegal robocalls.

The FTC said that the settlements announced this week are part of the agency’s “ongoing efforts to combat the scourge of illegal robocalls.”

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