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Another example has been made when FNA clamped down on three Austrian companies which are in control of someone acting under pseudonym "Friedrich Müller".
These companies were known to start mass phone-spam-calls where victims were tricked into calling back to a premium-rate-number by maintaining they have won a big amount of Euros.
http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/media/archive/13679.pdf
All the premium-rate-numbers obtained by these companies were switched off simultaneously (a step which the FNA takes seldom), the "business model" was interdicted, and also billing and debt collection was prohibited retroactively.
But, again, FNA did not ban the companies from obtaining new numbers. And, of course, it may be the case that new rogue companies will be founded. That´s the way innovative business goes.
It should not be regarded likely that the CEO of a company whose numbers are switched off will consider to earn his money by doing paper rounds for Sunday news in the future.
