A firm behind the Angry Birds mobile billing scam has been fined by UK's regulatory body. (Image: Janet, via Flickr / CC)

A UK firm has been issued a fine for running a fraudulent scheme that ill-used Angry Birds and Cut the Rope gamers by in-game billing.
Phonepayplus, a part of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, revealed that it received 34 user complaints about downloaded replicas widely played games that contained additional code for ordering handsets to send SMS messages to a premium …