cramming
n.— «Questions about the GlobalYP.net service were raised after a local technology firm found a $34.99 “miscellaneous” charge on an August-September phone bill for a Yellow Pages Internet directory. Investigators are trying to determine if the company and others were charged for the service without their knowledge, a practice known as “cramming.”» —“Officials probing Web service” by Tim Landis State Journal-Register (Springfield, Illinois) Nov. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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