A kind of fraud about unauthorized charges in phone bill. It is a fact that the telephone company sometimes added additional charges to your account aside from the normal monthly charges. There maybe an additional charges for long distance call.
If the owner of an account has no knowledge about the appropriate charges added to his phone bill then the act is called web cramming.
This act are common to those who intended to have a website. There are many companies in the net offering opportunity to a certain users to own a website for free. This companies hid their true intention of offering it for free. Most small businesses are the common target. If they apply for a website, they have to fill up personal information for purpose of identification. The companies then ask all information before they can register and own a website. They will give them all-out support without any additional obligation in website building.
How they do it?
An individual with small business was contacted by a telemarketer. His sales pitch is offering the victim to design a website and do the hosting for free. But the free website has additional advertisement, a caption stated as "free 30-days trial".
Actually it is not completely free, only on a certain period of time to see if the customer is satisfied with the service.
Contacting the possible client in relation to the offering, design and hosting of the site is the beginning of the billing fraud. All communications by phone initiated by the hosting company charged all their calls to the client's account without his knowledge.
The hosting company will start billing the client after the 30-days free period even if he refused or cancel the said trial with a notice before the specified deadline, the scam artist still do the billing of charges.
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