How many agents do you know that have been actually fined for simply calling someone that's on the dnc list?From my experience, most of the time the agent won't have to come up with any money, because they usually let the "client" know that they are dead broke, even if they aren't. Then they'll come after the IMO (or whatever source the lead was bought from). At that time, the IMO can go back to the vendor and try to recoup.
Our vendor knows very well they should be scrubbing. Nonetheless, some still go through. We just deduct that much from the amount we have to pay them. Easy as that as long as you make agreements with the vendor beforehand.