{"id":205788,"date":"2025-02-07T03:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/robocallers-posing-as-fcc-fraud-prevention-team-call-fcc-staff"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:10:56","slug":"robocallers-posing-as-fcc-fraud-prevention-team-call-fcc-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/robocallers-posing-as-fcc-fraud-prevention-team-call-fcc-staff","title":{"rendered":"Robocallers posing as FCC fraud prevention team call FCC staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robocallers-posing-as-fcc-fraud-prevention-team-call-fcc-staff.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FCC has proposed a $4,492,500 fine against VoIP service provider Telnyx for allegedly allowing customers to make robocalls posing as fictitious FCC \u201cFraud Prevention Team,\u201d by failing to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. However, Telnyx says the FCC is mistaken and denies the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals behind these calls registered Telnyx accounts using the \u201cChristian Mitchell\u201d and \u201cHenry Walker\u201d names with the same address in Toronto, Canada, but IP addresses from Scotland and England. They are known as the \u201cMarioCop\u201d accounts because they both used email addresses on the same <a href=\"http:\/\/mariocop123.com\">mariocop123.com<\/a> domain.<\/p>\n<p>Between February 6 and February 7, 2024, they made 1,797 imposter calls before Telnyx terminated their accounts. Ironically, their calls also reached over a dozen FCC staff and family members on their personal and work phone numbers one year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC has proposed a $4,492,500 fine against VoIP service provider Telnyx for allegedly allowing customers to make robocalls posing as fictitious FCC \u201cFraud Prevention Team,\u201d by failing to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. However, Telnyx says the FCC is mistaken and denies the accusations. The individuals behind these calls registered Telnyx accounts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}