A California woman was fined $432,000 for sending 27 junk...
A California woman was fined $432,000 for sending 27 junk faxes advertising her company, the FCC Enforcement Bureau said Thursday. Teresa Goldberg, d/b/a Software Training Co., sent the unsolicited faxes offering courses in “hands-on consulting and training” for QuickBooks. The…
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bureau contacted Goldberg in December 2010 in response to a consumer complaint about an unwanted fax; Goldberg responded that the company was no longer in business. Yet within two months, the commission received more complaints about identical faxes sent to 27 other consumers, this time from entities called “Software Business Management” and “Software Managing Systems.” A bureau investigation showed those two companies were merely aliases for Goldberg’s supposedly out-of-business company. Goldberg, whom the commission had fined before under her alias “Tammy Pocknett,” received the maximum penalty of $16,000 for each violation because she “appears not only to have repeatedly violated the prohibition against faxing unsolicited ads, but also to have done so intentionally and in an egregious manner,” the bureau said.