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Rogue Diallers

Rogue Diallers. By Brian McArdle. What is Rogue Diallers?. Rogue Diallers will install to the users computer that have dial up and will call premium rate numbers without you knowing, That might be racking up a big phone bill for you. How do you get them. if you are using dial up

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Rogue Diallers

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  1. Rogue Diallers By Brian McArdle

  2. What is Rogue Diallers? • Rogue Diallers will install to the users computer that have dial up and will call premium rate numbers without you knowing, That might be racking up a big phone bill for you

  3. How do you get them • if you are using dial up • They can be attachments found in a e-mail • Websites that will ask you to install some software to view something on their webpage

  4. Rogue Diallers examples “Byline: EXCLUSIVE JANE BARRIE Consumer editor INTERNET phone fraudsters are costing families more than pounds 5million a year. In the last six months 27,000 complaints have been made by customers who have received huge bills for calls they never made. Numbers of complaints soared after we revealed the plight of mum Roseanne Quinn earlier this year. Roseanne, 38, of Renfrew, was stunned to received a bill for pounds 540 - most of it taken up with internet calls to premium rate 0906 numbers. She called in premium rate watchdog ICSTIS who discovered a German firm Media Sky were behind the calls after their service was downloaded on Roseanne's computer without her knowledge.” http://www.thefreelibrary.com/INTERNET+SCAM%3A+pounds+5m+ROGUE+DIALLERS%3B+Families+get+huge+bills+for...-a0123050163

  5. How to not get them • Do use dial up and move to broadband • Don’t download software installers that you are not sure about • Don’t download files from e-mails you are not sure about about

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