Selbst die altehrwürdige Times berichtet:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8214-1288323,00.html
VICTIMS of internet phone scams facing large bills are now finding that their telephone companies are recouping the money by increasing their direct debits without their approval.
In some cases, more than £100 a month extra is being taken from their current accounts, and they are powerless to intervene.
The phone scams, a scandal first highlighted in Times Money, feature a rogue dialler that inserts itself into a computer, often through pop-up boxes, and diverts it from ringing its normal internet service provider. Instead, it calls international premium-rate numbers in remote countries.
Mike Claughton, a freelance writer from Ashford, Kent, found that he had fallen foul of rogue diallers in May, when BT told him that his quarterly bill had exceeded £1,000 instead of the normal £250. He believed that more than £800 was attributable to calls to premium-rate numbers made by a rogue dialler.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8214-1288323,00.html