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Foil 13 The Moldavia Pornographic Phone Scam

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen


1 The site sexygirls.com promised subscribers free pornography and all you had to do was to download the customized viewer.
2 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)
3 Moldavian phone company, the sexygirls website and the American phone split the proceeds of these bills!
4 This is a "security hole" that exists today in phone system outside the internet

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