Scan Through Your Cell Phone Bill - You May Be Paying For Some Extra-Nothing Every month

Well. OK... it has been a small portion of a decade since I last Blogged anything. I'm having too much fun reading what other folks have written.

So - what's all this about our cell phone bills? You may not be aware that you could be charged upwards of $10 per month on your cell phone bill. Charged for what? Basically - Nothing at all. Your cell phone company could be pass-through billing you for "services" provided by a plethora of shell companies. Apparently this has been going on for quite some time now. People have gotten an SMS or text message stating that they need to text back the word "STOP" to not be billed every month. Most folks think that the text message itself is some sort of scam and delete it. Then they find out that they have been Opted-In for a "Service" - and the cell phone company goes along with this because they get a portion of the billing charge! Pretty cheeky bastards are they! Apparently - Verizon is actively suing these scam-artist clowns.  ATT - not so much, they like the monthly charges.

This problem has come to light through the investigation of a guy named Hamid Shojaee. He has a website that is concerned with starting up Tech businesses in Arizona. He found out that he was being charged $10 per month by his cell phone carrier.... for nothing. His attempts at bringing this to people's attention got him some really fine take-down letters from some highly-paid lawyers. And because these lawyers demanded that his website hosting company bring down the website - they did! No investigation on their part, no phone call nor any emails to figure out what the problemo was all about.

Here's my suggestion - check your phone bills. Anything on there that doesn't make sense to you - call your phone carrier and have them explain it to you. If you do find that you have been scammed - ask for your money back. You may get back 3 months worth.

I would also suggest that you check out Hamid's website and find out how these newly-rich scammers ended up with your money.... every month. Jason Hope and his company Jawa have been paying for lawyer letters to be sent out in this regard. You can read the letters and the responses on Hamid's website.

One of Arizona's newspapers wrote a story about this incident.

There is also a video that explains what this is on about.

Okay - have a nice week. I write some more stuff in a couple years or so!

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