WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Sprint and Verizon will pay $120 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the cell phone providers charged consumers more than $100 million in unauthorized third-party charges, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said last week.

The lawsuit claimed users of both companies were charged after they clicked on ads for “free” digital content such as daily horoscopes and ringtones, the bureau said. The charges were done without the consent of the customers, and many of them weren’t aware that third-parties could charge to their wireless cell phone bills.