Andrew Bachman agrees to pay $100 million for mobile cramming

Andrew Bachman is the latest crammer to run afoul of the feds. Bachman and number of other defendants pitched text message services offering “love tips,” “fun facts,” and celebrity gossip alerts, but placed charges for these services – typically $9.99 a month – on consumers’ wireless bills without their permission, a practice known as mobile cramming. Bachman and friends also allegedly used deceptive websites designed to collect consumers’ mobile phone numbers that would then be billed for the services.