[BC] re: communications attorney was: am radio kit - busted

[Sherrod Munday]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 17:35, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Someone is phishing.
>
> The FCC doesn't deal in that manner as a far as I am aware.  A call to the
> Enforcement Bureau is necessary to find out if this guy is an employee of
> the FCC and/or a field enforcement engineer/officer.  I'm sure they would
> be really interested in hearing they have an imposter out there...which is
> a federal felony offense.

Ditto.

IMHO call the local/closest FCC EB office and find out if there really is 
anyone by his name that works for them.  Explain the situation, and let them 
know you'd love to have them and the appropriate public safety official (e.g. 
local cops, federal marshal, etc.) come by your place to meet/pick up someone 
posing as a federal official.

Then respond by email to the supposed FCC "official" and indicate you'd love 
it if he came by at time xx:xx to meet with you to discuss the legality of 
what you're running, and if it's not legal, then you'd be willing to forfeit 
it (you needn't indicate to whom... ;-).  

Have the feds waiting inside your apartment when he gets there.

Not on a broadcast note, but I had a friend have to do something like this 
when someone years ago stole his credit card info and bought (among many 
other things) a pair of race tickets to be delivered to a hotel room.  The 
police were waiting around the corner of the check-in desk when he came in to 
sign for the tickets...  In that case, the perp had crossed state lines and 
had plenty of outstanding warrants so it was a bigger offense than just what 
we now know as identity theft...
-- 
Sherrod Munday <smunday at srnradio.com>
Technical Director
Salem Radio Network    (972) 831-1920