The U.S. DOJ has sued AT&T, claiming the carrier improperly billed them for services that are used by deaf and hard-of-hearing subscribers.
Those users can place calls by typing messages over the Internet.
Explains USA Today: "The system has been abused by callers overseas who use it to defraud U.S. merchants by ordering goods with stolen credit cards and counterfeit checks. In response, ... [ read the full article ]
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Always the victim, never the perpetrator... take your punishment like a man (or the rest of us) & walk it off. Some of us old timers used to take our ass whippings like a red badge of courage. Pussies.
Originally posted by nbfreak2: Doj going after everyone,screw the DOJ....
Really, nbfreak2? Really? The government does something worthwhile in a long ass time and you respond by bitching about it? I, for one, am glad that [at least in this minimal fashion] at&t's somewhat questionable practices are brought to light.
@LordRuss
I hear you. None of this "touchy-feely" shi- uh- stuff for me when I was growing up. If you mess up, if you break the rules well then be prepared to pay the consequences. It's actually that simple.
Originally posted by LordRuss: Always the victim, never the perpetrator... take your punishment like a man (or the rest of us) & walk it off. Some of us old timers used to take our ass whippings like a red badge of courage. Pussies.
I agree with you. They always state that they are following the "rules/law/etc" during any event they are being called to task for. If they were good corporate citizens, they would have done the right thing, and prevented their service from being used to defraud U.S. merchants. But because they weren't required to, not to mention that they were getting reimbursed for these calls, they allowed them to go through.
