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Scheme known as cramming. thats where misleading or unauthorized charges suddenly appear on your cell phone bill in the form of premium text subscriptions. the overcharges add up costing customers hundreds of millions of dollars. how can you protect yourself. all right. i got to be honest with you. i have never heard of cramming before. what is it? >> its been happening for years and the they have actively been pursuing companies that allows cramming to happen to consumers. you see this resolvin...

Of bilking millions of charges in services they never asked for, flirting tips and who a horoscopes and other spam tied to their bill. we bring in alison kosik, good morning. >> good morning, flirting tips, really. this is the kind thnchts is the reason we list as the reason we hate our phone carriers. consumers were charged these bogus text subscriptions, this happened between 2009 until december of last year, this lasted four years according to the ftc. what happened here is these charges came...