FCC Slaps Health Insurance Robocaller with Record Fine

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The Federal Communications Commission has hit Texas-based telemarketers with a $225 million fine for sending out about 1 billion robocalls, the federal agency announced this week. The fine was the largest in the FCC’s history. The calls themselves were “illegally spoofed, to sell short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans” the FCC says. The robocalls pretended to be from major insurers…

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