From the MobiBlog.Com How to avoid ringtone scams
How To Avoid Free Ringtone Scams
Emerging Mobile News
Ringtones
those clever little ditties that wireless subscribers are downloading
to their mobile phones provide users an inexpensive way to personalize
their devices and give carriers a highly lucrative revenue stream. But
as ringtones have grown in popularity, so to have new internet scams on un-suspecting wireless customers…..
….“This settlement comes at a time when the digital consumer is faced
with new deceptive internet scams on a daily basis,” said Brad Ashwell,
legislative advocate for the Florida Public Interest Research Group….
Investigators further determined that these third-party content offers
often target teens who frequently respond to these advertisements
because they think the services are “free,” and download them to their
cell phones, not knowing their parents will later be charged.
These
misleading practices are common in the industry and wireless companies
often receive a percentage of the charges paid by consumers.
How to Avoid Cell Phone Ringtone Scams & Cell Phone Viruses
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