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  • 27 Mar 2023 | 20 Year Old Founder of Forum for Data Breaches and Hackers Arrested
  • 24 Mar 2023 | 3 Reasons to Question the Recent Anti-Spam Agreement between Australia and the UK
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  • 21 Mar 2023 | Facebook Experiments with Flash Calls
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  • 17 Mar 2023 | Is China Deliberately Cutting Taiwan’s Internet Cables?
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> 2022 June

MTN Nigeria Subsidiary Demands Banks Return $54mn of ‘Wrong’ Mobile Money Transactions

By Eric Priezkalns 30 Jun 2022 Digital Money

Usoro Usoro, CEO of MoMo Payment Service Bank, submitted a court affidavit about 700,000 improper transfers to 18 different banks.


Last Week to Respond to i3forum-RAG Survey on International Wholesale Fraud

By Eric Priezkalns 29 Jun 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

It takes just 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire but all submissions must be made by the end of July 6.


RA Propaganda in Nigeria Shows Folly of Get-Rich-Quick Mentality

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Jun 2022 Assurance & Audit

The 217mn inhabitants of the world’s seventh-largest country are told that telcos need revenue assurance to be imposed from outside.


RAG Goes to Sydney

By Eric Priezkalns 27 Jun 2022 Education & Conferences

The Risk & Assurance Group (RAG) will hold its AsiaPac conference in downtown Sydney on October 19 and 20.


Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?

By Eric Priezkalns 24 Jun 2022 Data & Analytics

The pandemic affected how people read Commsrisk, but not in the ways you might expect.


The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error

By Eric Priezkalns 23 Jun 2022 Assurance & Audit

A customer was lured into making an expensive international call but her error was made hundreds of times worse by her telco incorrectly recording the call’s duration.


Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam

By Eric Priezkalns 22 Jun 2022 Nuisance & Spam

Symbio Group did not check the origin of hundreds of thousands of spam calls because they lacked the tools to do so.


Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks

By Eric Priezkalns 21 Jun 2022 Cold War 2

The US government has allocated less than half of the USD5.3bn required to reimburse telcos for scrapping Huawei and ZTE gear.


UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Jun 2022 Nuisance & Spam

But they also want to weaken rules that currently require politicians be held to the same standard as marketeers.


Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Jun 2022 Digital Money

The Head of Communications at SAS Institute sees no problem with a wild generalization about Africans and crime.


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