Cell phone cramming happens when third-party vendors use consumers’ phone numbers much like a credit card. Vendors add charges to phone bills for bogus products or services, such as celebrity gossip items, horoscopes, trivia and joke-of-the-day offerings, that consumers and businesses never requested or authorized. But because consumers rarely, if ever, detect the fraudulent charges, the scammers often illegally profit for months at a time.

Cell phone cramming happens when third-party vendors use consumers’ phone numbers much like a credit card. Vendors add charges to phone bills for bogus products …

Published on January 30, 2015
Mayor of Harvey, Ill., Eric J. Kellogg

Mayor of Harvey, Ill., Eric J. Kellogg

Published on January 30, 2015

Published on January 30, 2015
Beyonce

Beyonce

Published on January 30, 2015
“This could really be about any black woman in media.”—University of Illinois at Chicago, Prof., Jennifer Richardson on her semester course, “Beyoncé: Critical Feminist Perspectives and U.S. Black Womanhood.”

“This could really be about any black woman in media.”—University of Illinois at Chicago, Prof., Jennifer Richardson on her semester course, “Beyoncé: Critical Feminist Perspectives …

Published on January 30, 2015