Jamster Sued for Mobile Selling Practices

Jamster Sued for Mobile Selling Practices


Last update: 11-04-05	Submitted by ahbao
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Jamster, a service owned by VeriSign that sells ringtones and other content to mobile-phone subscribers, is under attack for allegedly misleading young consumers into paying for expensive text messages. Jamster advertises that mobile customers can get a free ringtone by sending a text message to the company. In reality, those customers then get text messages from Jamster that cost $1.99 each along with the mobile operator's standard per-message charge.

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