Miami Man Faces $120 Million Fine for 96-Million Robocall Spree
- FCC proposes penalty in case over calls for fake travel deals
- Calls falsely claimed deals with TripAdvisor, Expedia, Hilton
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A Miami man accused of flooding consumers with 96 million phone calls touting fake travel deals faces a record proposed $120 million fine from federal regulators, who said he operated the worst robocall spoofing effort they had seen.
Adrian Abramovich tried to trick consumers into answering and listening to his advertising messages, the Federal Communications Commission said in a news release Thursday. The pace of calls works out to an average of more than 1 million per day.