Did "25184USBFIQMIG" show up on your bill, charging $9.99 a month? Not anymore.
by Cyrus Farivar - June 14 2014, 5:01pm GMTST
Mobile crammers Lin Miao, Andrew Bachman, and their cohorts will have to handover a Bentley like this one as part of their settlement with the US government.
"In a settlement announced Friday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the operators of a huge mobile phone cramming scheme have agreed to handover over $10 million in assets.
The deceptive tactic charges people for fake services on their local phone bills. There, the charges often go unnoticed for months. Applying charges to an account, called Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) billing, is legal and can have legitimate uses—but it's widely known as a vector for cramming schemes."
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