Shady and reprehensible. And why would they use a legendary dead celebrity? If you want to see another good one search "John Smith" to see a ton of identical posts by americas many john smiths.....
One thing I will say is that giving away these people's addresses and personal information seems like a terrible breach of privacy. You can literally look up anyone you know who commented.
That's the definition of fraud, famousone. And they likely didn't use just one false name either. There could be any number of these under any number of names.
When you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of messages, it is pretty hard to verify every single one.
If the FCC did not know these were fraudulent, then they are not at fault.
Use this to see if your name was use in a shady way
One thing I will say is that giving away these people's addresses and personal information seems like a terrible breach of privacy. You can literally look up anyone you know who commented.
Regardless, what's the FCC supposed to do about it?
If the FCC did not know these were fraudulent, then they are not at fault.
Also, "computers" isn't much to go off of. What do you mean?