According to the Wall St Journal on April 6, 2010, an AT&T Inc. manager pondered a drop in volume in the company's government-subsidized service for hearing-impaired callers. Reassuring a colleague in an email, the manager said she was "not ready to throw up flags" because "it was Easter Monday yesterday, which is celebrated in Nigeria."
The exchange was part of a lawsuit unveiled Thursday by the Department of Justice, which alleged that AT&T knew the service had become a haven for Nigerian scam artists, while serving relatively few of America's hearing-impaired.
The telecom giant then billed the Federal Communications Commission $16 million for such services….
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