Record $120m fine for nuisance robocalls
A man has been fined a record-breaking $ 120m (£88m) for making more than 90 million automated marketing telephone calls in the US.Miami salesman Adrian Abramovich was accused of trying to sell holidays and timeshare properties with the unsolicited robocalls.The fine is the largest the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ever issued.Mr Abramovich said he had not intended to "defraud or cause harm".But FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement that the defence "isn't very convincing"."Mr Abramovich doesn't dispute that he was responsible for placing 96,758,223 robocalls during a three-month period in 2016," he said."He doesn't dispute that all these robocalls were made without the recipients' consent." ...