Thousands received the suspicious message • Experts warn that this is a scam designed, among other things, to make you pay large sums for airtime • All the details

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Did you receive a message like this in the last day? "Hi Mami I want to call you now after a shower" (errors originally) - Do not respond to the message, do not call the number, and delete the message from your smartphone.

This is a message sent in the last day to tens of thousands of Israelis, with a request to call the number starting at 1-900. People who received the message turned to social media and did not understand who was behind it. Now, an examination we did in "Israel Today" shows that this is a company for paid erotic conversations.

"Anyone who calls the number will receive a charge at the end of the month from the cellular company, these are charges per minute as they once were," says Amir Carmi from the hacker services company of HackerU College, HackerU Solutions. "The worse part is that from that moment on you go into their lists, of the ones they were able to work on and then you get a much larger amount of messages of that kind."

Carmi recommends that anyone who has received such a message or a similar message not to call the number written in the message, or respond. "The main danger is that from that moment on you enter the list of all the scams related to high-charge numbers," he concludes. 

Also in the TrueCaller app, which is used to identify callers who are not in the phonebook, the number was reported by 14 users as spam and is known as "erotic call cheating".

Meanwhile, the cellular companies acted quickly, and Pelephone and Partner told "Israel Today" that the number was blocked last night and there is no danger that customers will be charged.

Assaf Golan participated in the preparation of the article