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Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, 2010 @05:42PM from the if-a-penguin-answers dept.

UgLyPuNk writes with an excerpt from Gamepron.com: "Freeware games can actually cost you more money than their pay-to-play cousins, as mobile gamers in the UK have learned. A 'booby-trapped' version of a popular Windows Mobile game has been sneakily spending their money while they sleep – by dialing phone numbers in the Antarctic behind their backs."

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Re:OS name appropriate - WinCE by zullnero · 2010-05-31 20:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Dude. That was funny 10 YEARS AGO.
Re:LOL by ArsenneLupin · 2010-05-31 20:18 · Score: 0, Troll

No idea why Microsoft decided this is not needed.
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In any case, the victims "deserve" what they got. Don't they have any geek friends, and didn't any of these warn them about Windows Mobile?