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Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Hahaha!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is what happens when you herp derp derp Android & Windows... On my iPhone at least I don't always have to herp derp herp derp. Apple always derp herp. Apple iPhone Apple Apple Apple Jobs 3GS herp derp. Apple store always derp better quality apps herp derp stuff like this happening a lot more in the future.

  2. Re:yikes by love2putmypenisthere · · Score: -1, Troll

    you most certainly love the cock.

  3. Re:OS name appropriate - WinCE by zullnero · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude. That was funny 10 YEARS AGO.

  4. Re:LOL by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 0, Troll

    No idea why Microsoft decided this is not needed.

    User frienliness

    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?