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title: FTC Announces Crackdown on Two Massive Illegal Robocall Operations
metaTitle: "FTC Busts Robocall Rings"
slug: ftc-busts-robocall-rings
date: "2017-01-13T15:07:50-06:00"
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sourcePublisher:
  name: FTC
  url: bit.ly
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://bit.ly/2jQgeKq"
legacySlug: ftc-announces-crackdown-on-two-massive-illegal-robocall-operations
tags: [Do Not Call, FTC, Phone Scam, Robocalls]
status: published
---

January 13, 2017

Web of defendants blasted billions of robocalls, including more than 70 million to numbers on National Do Not Call Registry.

Many of the defendants in the two cases, FTC v. Justin Ramsey, et al. and FTC v. Aaron Michael Jones, et al., have agreed to court orders that permanently ban them from making robocalls, making any calls to numbers listed on the Do Not Call Registry, violating the TSR, and/or assisting others in doing so. The settling defendants also will pay the Commission a total of more than $500,000...