Britons spend more than £1.5 million every day calling premium rate phone numbers including sex lines.
Now hackers have found a way round paying for these calls by putting them on someone else's bill.
Today The Argus talks to couples who were the innocent victims of hacking.
Their ordeals put a strain on their finances and their relationships.
Usually in such cases the victims have to pay the extra cash even though they never made the calls.
Lewes MP Norman Baker is right to raise the issue with the phone companies and the industry watchdog.
It is totally wrong that law-abiding people should be forced to pay huge bills for calls they would never even dream of making.
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