If you have a landline in your home, business, or church, you may want to double check your phone bill.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan says scammers are using your phone number as a credit card and you may be paying for things you did not order.

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It's estimated that two billion dollars worth of cram charges are placed on phone bills each year. Cramming charges usually appear in the "Accounts Summary" section of your phone bill and they're typically listed as "miscellaneous charges or credits."  The Illinois Attorney General's office has filed 30 lawsuits against phone crammers since 1996.  Madigan is backing a proposal that will ban all phone billing by a third-party company unless it's for a legitimate service.