The FCC says what it calls an illegal robocall repeat offender is trying to evade enforcement. That’s why the Enforcement Bureau called on carriers to no longer accept traffic from One Eye LLC and demanded that the company cease and desist its support for illegal robocalls.
FCC investigators have found that One Eye LLC transmitted multiple illegal robocall campaigns. These calls pertained to bank impersonation, including claims of “preauthorized orders” placed on the recipient’s “account.” During autumn of 2022, the Commission’s Traceback Consortium investigated prerecorded voice message calls that Bank of America and customers of Verizon had flagged as illegal robocalls made without consent.
The consortium conducted tracebacks and determined that One Eye acted as the gateway provider for the calls. One Eye is a successor entity to PZ/Illum Telecommunication, which received an Enforcement Bureau cease-and-desist letter on October 21, 2021.
One Eye owner Prince Anand explained to a downstream provider that he shut down PZ/Illum Telecommunication due to the FCC’s letter but that he then launched One Eye LLC to originate calls. The agency believes he did this to apparently evade enforcement efforts. He left his name off the paperwork while remaining the only owner, according to the Commission. Now, the agency is targeting his new company with what it calls “heightened” enforcement powers including the use of a notice to encourage other carriers to refrain from carrying this traffic.
“Our investigators are not fooled by rebranding and figurehead ownership tricks,” said Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal, “We are not going to allow serial robocallers to simply start up ‘new’ companies to continue scamming American consumers. Repeat offenders will face stiffer penalties.”
By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief
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