Businesses are finding charges ranging from 20p to 60p a day are being added to their bills in the shape of additional standing charges.

Suprunyuck and Sayenko were also found guilty on the animal cruelty charges.

"Certainly; but you will find terrible charges."

However, he was found not guilty of the bid rigging charges in 2010.

Those unwary enough to fall for the trick soon find charges on their billing statement for purchases they never made.

However, it proved difficult to find legitimate criminal charges, and by 2004, this privilege had yet to be invoked by federal prosecutors.

The case came to light after the owners of the credit cards found charges on their bills for unauthorized airline ticket purchases.

On May 12 2009 Kassir was found guilty by a federal jury on all eleven charges brought against him.

And so people are finding charges on their cards, monthly charges being made from companies they never directly gave the information to.