The Moldavia Pornographic Phone Scam
The site sexygirls.com promised subscribers free pornography and all you had to do was to download the customized viewer.
The “viewer” on being downloaded, turned off the modem’s speaker, disconnected you from the Internet and redialed to Moldavia. Then you did get the promised pornography but also a huge phone bill for international calls (presumably many dollars per minute)
Moldavian phone company, the sexygirls website and the American phone split the proceeds of these bills!
This is a “security hole” that exists today in phone system outside the internet