[telecom] Integretel nailed at last

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[telecom] Integretel nailed at last Jim Haynes 03-05-2008
Posted by Jim Haynes on March 5, 2008, 10:54 pm
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An item on slashdot points to
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25700

with a story about one Willoughby Farr being banned for life
and forfeiting most of his assets as a result of an FTC
investigation of cramming (putting bogus charges on people's
phone bills).

Company names involved include Billing Concepts, Inc., ACI
Billing Services, Inc., and BSG Clearing Solutions North
America LLC, and The Billing Resource d.b.a. Integretel.
FTC has cases pending against other principals: Yaret Garcia,
Erika Riaboukha, and Qaadir Kaid. Another defendant Mary
Lou Farr has already settled with the FTC.

Sometimes the good guys win.


Pure Networks
Posted by danny burstein on March 6, 2008, 12:09 pm
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writes:

>An item on slashdot points to
>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25700

>with a story about one Willoughby Farr being banned for life
>and forfeiting most of his assets as a result of an FTC
>investigation of cramming (putting bogus charges on people's
>phone bills).
...
>Sometimes the good guys win.

Lots more info at:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/03/cram.shtm

I'll disagree with "the good guys win". The whole
issue of "cramming" and similar sleaze tactics
only continue thanks to the willing (some might
say eager) assistance of the telcos.

The telcos could, if they wanted, stop 99 percent
of this garbage if their contracts with the billing
folk simply said something like "this contract is
void if there's a 2 percent complaint rate".

Similarly, it's about time these [expletives deleted]
and their facilitators started seeing criminal charges.

If the local plumbing supply house sends around
Mr. Gotti with an invoice for fake sewer cleanup,
he and his friends eventually face the DA. If the
telcos send out 100,000 bills of this sort, and
perhaps 10 percent of people pay up, and the other
90 percent have to waste their time and energy
fighting the charges, not much happens.


--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
                 dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]


Posted by AES on March 6, 2008, 10:40 pm
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> writes:
>
> >An item on slashdot points to
> >http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25700
>
> >with a story about one Willoughby Farr being banned for life
> >and forfeiting most of his assets as a result of an FTC
> >investigation of cramming (putting bogus charges on people's
> >phone bills).
> ...
> >Sometimes the good guys win.
>
> Lots more info at:
> http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/03/cram.shtm


> I'll disagree with "the good guys win" . . .

So will I.

The victims -- whether this means the telcos, or the innocent victims
who were overbilled -- lose $30M (with no sure knowledge that $30M was
the real total of the overbillings).

Farr gives back $500K; apparently does no jail time; and is turned lose
with a meaningless ban so that he can, most likely, pursue some other
con.

And the telcos who went along with the scam, and the "regulators" who
made it possible, presumably get at most a trivial wrist slap, if that.


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