FTC smacks down robocallers, but the penalties don’t match their heinous crimes – TechCrunch

The fight against robocallers is just getting started, and the wheel of justice turns slowly, but the FTC just took down a handful of major operations responsible for billions of unwanted calls, some of them adding additional fraud to the mix. The money coming out of the cases is surprisingly small, however — but there’s a reason for that. In an announcement yesterday, the FTC said it had taken