PETALING JAYA: The next time you surf the Internet, be careful of what you click on because you could end up running up telephone bills in the thousands of ringgit.
There are websites and pop-up advertisements on the internet that lead users to make automatic international calls. This is called Internet dumping or modem hijacking.
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