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America's Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, has a man who they say nearly 100 million robocalls. A robocall is a telephone call that is by a computer programme. The software can thousands of calls at a time. The FCC fined the man a record $120 million because they say he a threat to public safety. The FCC says the man's calls were illegal because many of them were to "critical emergency phone lines". The FCC said many other calls to mobile phones and residential telephones without the person called wanting that call. This the call was a nuisance call - a bit like spam e-mail, which also unwanted and annoying.

The FCC said the man a serious crime and out, "one of the largest and most dangerous illegal robocalling campaigns that the Commission has ever ". The man 96 million robocalls during a three-month period in 2016 as a part of a "telemarketing scheme". He a technique called "neighbor spoofing" to get people to answer the calls. This technique people into thinking the calls are from a local telephone number. The man also tricked people into that the calls were from well-known airlines, hotels and travel companies. Callers were instead on to call centres that tried to them property. The man said he has nothing wrong.