Every Day Scams That People Are So Used To They Don’t Notice

1% Charge

Verizon tacked on a $1 fee onto 8% of their customer’s bills each month, so over the course of the year, they did it to every customer, about 150,000,000.

Their rationale was: that 50% wouldn’t notice and just pay the charge or would notice and wouldn’t spend any time fighting a $1 charge. 50% would notice the charge and call to have it removed. Of those, 35% would get frustrated while on the call and give up.

Story credit – Reddit/peezoki