Cramming is the addition of unexpected or unauthorized charges
to a bill for landline or mobile telephone service. Crams comes
to an expensive end The Probation Service...
(ComputerWeekly.com) CRAM (challenge-response authentication
mechanism) CRAM (challenge-response authentication
mechani...(SearchSecurity.com) The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) estimates that as many as 20 million United
States landline customers are crammed on a yearly basis and that
only one in 20 of the victims is aware of the fact. Crammed
charges are purposely hard to detect. They’re often for
insignificant amounts and listed as things like “other fees,”
“membership” or “calling plan” rather than identifying the
service in question. The problem can be even more difficult to
detect on mobile accounts because wireless customers often
subscribe to multiple services and it can be hard to
differentiate fraudulent charges from authorized ones. Both AT&T
and Verizon have recently instituted a ban on cramming for
landlines but neithe