M-Qube Settles with Florida AG Over Mobile Ad Fraud

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 3, 2008 - 8:58am.

Tallahassee, Fla. - M-Qube, a unit of VeriSign (NASD: VRSN) that aggregates billing services for mobile content distribution, has reached a settlement agreement with Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, over unauthorized ringtone and other mobile content charges to customers' bills.

Under the terms, Massachusetts-based M-Qube will pay $500,000 in fines, modify its business practices, and submit to monitoring by the AG's CyberFraud unit.

McCollum said that M-Qube charged thousands of consumers for third-party services often advertised as free, that actually signed them up for costly monthly subscriptions for services like mobile ringtones, horoscopes, wallpapers and jokes of the day.

"CyberFraud often has many layers, but we're going to address them all -- from wireless carriers all the way to third party content providers and another other parties in between," said Attorney General McCollum.

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Published in DMW Daily, September 3, 2008

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05/13/2009 apparently it's

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on May 13, 2009 - 10:31am.

05/13/2009 apparently it's not working as we are constantly finding this and others on our bills. might i add 500,000 is probably nothing compared to the millions they make defrauding so-clled customers every month.