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Scammers Posing as FCC Fraud Team Call the FCC, Get Fined | It's kind of a giveaway if you call the people you're pretending to be.
It's kind of a giveaway if you call the people you're pretending to be.
Here’s how this whole thing went down, according to the FCC: Two people who identified themselves by the names “Christian Mitchell” and “Henry Walker” registered accounts with Telnyx, a VOIP service provider based in Texas. For the few unfortunate souls who picked up, the FCC said they were subjected to attempts to “threaten, intimidate, and defraud.” One victim reported that the fraudsters demanded they pay $1,000 in Google gift cards to avoid jail time for “crimes against the state.” However that happened, it seems to have put the whole operation on the FCC’s radar, and now it’s coming down on Telnyx for failing to comply with Know Your Customer rules designed to prevent malicious actors from making use of these networks in the first place.
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