A Montana man has been served court papers to recover nearly $10 million dollars on behalf of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) due to him allegedly carrying out 5,000 unlawful robocalls.

On October 21, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana filed a complaint against 52-year-old Scott Rhodes from Libby, Montana. According to court documents, Rhodes allegedly made 4,959 illegal robocalls by using falsified called ID information with harmful intentions. Many of Rhodes's calls targeted residents of Brooklyn, Iowa during a time when a local woman was murdered. Rhodes allegedly told residents that the woman was murdered by a "biological hybrid of white and savage Aztec ancestors" and that if she "could be brought back to life for just one moment," she would ask the listener to "kill them all.