Alcazar Settles With FTC on Illegal Telemarketing Robocall Charges

Alcazar Networks agreed to settle with the FTC Thursday on charges the VoIP service provider "provided a gateway for tens of millions of illegal calls." Investigators said Alcazar knowingly allowed customers to use its services to call numbers on the FTC's Do Not Call registry by displaying spoofed numbers, including 911. Alcazar agreed to pay a $105,562 civil fine and will be required to implement automated procedures to block spoofed calls, follow secure telephone identity revisited (Stir) and signature-based handling of asserted information using tokens (Shaken) requirements for all calls after June 30, and screen customers before providing them with VoIP services. This is the FTC’s second case against a VoIP service provider.