Jamster Gets Sued, Why Am I Not Surprised
by Darla
Seems like this is the biggest news all around the blog world. And its about time. Back in January I posted on my annoying discovery of Jamster while watching MTV. It was just a matter of time before something happened to lead to this. Reading through forums I noticed the amount of people getting scammed from the bling bling adverts and that damn crazy frog!! The horror would be people trying to get the service providers to refund the fees that were never mentioned. I'm glad to see that AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile are on the list of sue-ees!! I mean why in the world would they want to loose money because of some damn frog!! The most interesting article that I came across regarding this was posted on My Yahoo this morning.
Jamster is the U.S. name of Jamba, a German mobile content provider that VeriSign acquired in June 2004. VeriSign is no stranger to consumer wrath. T-Mobile USA and Cingular Wireless are also named on the suit, presumedly because they allow Jamster to bill for "free" services.
Jamster advertises on TV and other media that mobile customers can get a free ringtone if they send a text message to the number displayed on the ad. In fact, those who sent the text message got multiple messages back notifying them that content was available for download, according to the complaint. The customers had to pay for all those messages (premium SMS).
I wonder if the suit includes any of the musicians and the networks such as MTV and VH1. Wouldn't they have to approve of this content before its blatenly advertised?
Jared Humphrey has started a petition for those wrongfully scammed by the false advertising of Jamster.
via: ringtonia.com, Engadget, BoingBoing, MocoNews, MobileTracker
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