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> Fraudulent transactions and charges to their prepaid airtime I sure hope Yelp doesn't do that. In countries without sufficient traditional banking infrastruc
by yorwba 6y ago
> Fraudulent transactions and charges to their prepaid airtime
I sure hope Yelp doesn't do that. In countries without sufficient traditional banking infrastructure, prepaid phone balances become a substitute to bank accounts. According to the Upstream Systems report you yourself linked, the malware wasn't just using the phone's data allowance, but actively attempting to subscribe to digital services which get billed to the user's prepaid balance. That's equivalent to signing up to services with the user's credit card.