Phone hackers develop dialing software to steal billions

Bob Foreman’s architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March. The swindle, which on the web is easier to pull off and more profitable, affects mostly small businesses and cost victims $4.73 billion globally last year.“I thought: ‘This is crazy. It must be a mistake,’ ” Mr. Foreman said. It wasn’t…

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