Chapter 9. Free adult entertainment
Pornography abounds on the Internet. Fully aware of the public’s apparent never-ending appetite for online adult entertainment, enterprising scammers have used this to scam people out of money through their phone bills.
A number of websites, such as the now shut-down sexygirls.com, were used in one particular scam to lure people by providing free Internet pornography that could be accessed only after downloading what was referred to as a special “viewer” program. However, what the downloaded program actually did was disconnect the computer users from their local Internet service providers and reconnect the computers to a phone number in Moldova, an Eastern European country found between Romania and the Ukraine. ...
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