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June 11, 2012 10:00 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Pq93T1lq2oA/ftc-sets-sights-on-scammy-cr.html
FTC sets sights on scammy "crammers" who bill your phone a fortune for services you don't need, want, or use
Ars Technica's Nate Anderson writes about the FTC's lawsuit against Streaming Flix and its billing partner, Billing Services Group. The companies are accused of putting random charges on peoples' phone bills through trickery (fine-print in seemingly unrelated signups) or outright fraud (simply adding charges to random phone bills, like a local public library's storyline, which [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Pq93T1lq2oA/ftc-sets-sights-on-scammy-cr.html
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