Scam bites porn addicts.
It's no secret that erotica and pornography are big business on the Net. When the program is downloaded and run, it silently hangs up the user's modem and forces it to instead dial a number in Moldova, a former state of the Soviet Union. In a very large percentage of cases, the naive users are unaware that they are now being charged for the equivalent of an international 0900 call and racking up a huge phone bill. Canadian police are investigating the operation which has its base in Scarborough and in the meantime have ordered that calls from Canada to the number in question are blocked by Canada's Telcos.