Beware Smartphone Dialer Scams!!

Watch out porn surfers! the Dialer scammers are back! This time around they are targeting your smartphones. In past years these companies have made lots of money form unsuspecting porn surfers. This is why we made the Smuthouse to help keep YOU safe form porn predators.

LOS ANGELES—Despite the advance of technology and the development of exciting new business models, some things never change, and that’s doubly true for scams. Indeed, many old ones have found new life in new technologies. Case in point: the dialer scams of several years ago.

“Dialers would infect individuals' computers, disconnect their modem, and then force it to dial a long distance number, typically an international call,” reports Daily Tech. “The virus would often mute the modem speaker so the victim would be none-the-wiser. Milking the economics of international calls, the crooks would pocket a substantial amount for each call, while victims would be left with massive phone bills.”

Fast forward to 2010, when Software firm CA noticed a rise in dialer attacks targeting smartphones.

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