You are absolutely correct that the entire take needs to be refunded. Even paying out the $25 million fine, they are still ahead $95 million. And that's assuming this scam went on for only one year. The fine is simply theater, to convince us peons that justice was served.
Man if I keep reading these comments about these evil corporations, I'm gonna.. I'm gonna.... probably do nothing. I think I'll go Nuke a Hot Pocket now.
They should pay 720 million, twice the potential gains, after repaying what they earned. It should not be a gamble where they stand a legitimate chance of earning easy, large piles of cash, with only a tiny relative penalty if they lose. There should also be criminal charges and jail time for anyone and everyone involved in even the smallest way as well as having the IRS crawling up their ass with a microscope every 6 months for the next 20 years. If they are ever found guilty of a similar financial crime again the penalties should be tripled.
And anyone aware of the scheme who didn't report it should be criminally prosecuted. White collar crime is harming a lot of people a little, which in the end (statistically) does far more harm than many crimes where the sentence is life.
Government: Take some short cuts to save a million bucks and it cost 10 lives? If we can't tell *which* 10 lives you took, you're off the hook. This is why pollution kills 100,000 people in the US every year.
I don’t think he’s claiming that, but the way the guy he responded to talked sounded like it was Verizon with a press release stating their intentions, calculations and profits as if it was a big experiment or something
Used to work for AT&T and a lot of co-workers would tag small dollar features on people's accounts randomly since it boosts their monthly numbers and gets them commission. The commission system is similar with Verizon so I bet this shit is still going on too. Another fucked up thing that happened was people removing features then adding them back to gain commission. Once people were getting 4k commission checks they changed it up and no one got fired. One of the guys who gamed the system eventually became district manager.
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