New hijacking of WAP settings

By Regine
on June 3, 2004 7:02 AM
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Just received unpleasantly huge phone bills for calls to premium-rate numbers that you never made?

The blame could be put on the new kind of scam that has been detected two weeks ago: an SMS overwrites the WAP settings on your phone, replaces the standard WAP home page with something else - and then switches the call to a premium rate number.

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