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The FCC and an Australian agency signed an agreement on Thursday to team up and try and combat illegal robocalls by sharing information.

Despite eye-popping federal fines for illegal robocalls, even some federal regulators concede that collection efforts "netted next to nothing."

The marketers, under the business names Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom, used robocalls to falsely sell short-term health insurance plans. They made about one billion robocalls, according to the FCC. The fine, originally proposed last summer, is one part of an expanded effort to rein in automated sales calls the FCC announced on Wednesday. It's the largest fine in the commission's history. Robocalls are a daily annoyance for many Americans, and they have been rising in recent years, with some estimates showing that billions are made per month. The number of spam calls received in the U.S. r...

Spiller told the USTelecom Industry Traceback Group, a group authorized by the FCC to investigate robocalls, that he knowingly called consumers on the Do Not Call list, the FCC says. He told the group that his firm made millions of calls per day and that he was using spoofed numbers, the FCC said in its original fine proposal. In addition to enforcing the agency's largest-ever fine, the FCC also issued several cease-and-desist orders against other robocallers and created a robocall response team. “Unwanted robocalls are not only a nuisance, but they also pose a serious risk to consumers who...

Federal regulators slap telemarketers with historic $225 million fine for 1 billion robocalls Print this article The Federal Communications Commission imposed the largest fine in its history, $225 million, on a Texas-based telemarketer for sending out 1 billion robocalls to entice people into buying misleading, at times fraudulent, health insurance plans. "The FCC’s investigation found that the Rising Eagle spoofed its robocalls to deceive consumers and caused at least one company whose caller IDs were spoofed to become overwhelmed with angry call-backs from aggrieved consumers," the agenc...