A crumbling strategy for scam reduction has forced the FCC to contemplate options opposed by lobbyists and the businesses they represent.

China is aggressively tackling the root source of heinous scam crimes while most other countries only talk about it.

These were the hottest articles that Commsrisk published during September, plus some insights into the impact that AI is having on visitors to this website.

Probably not, but a surge of downloads for Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers has demonstrated why democracies will struggle to control what people see.

It is remarkable to see how much has been said about the threats supposedly uncovered by the US Secret Service in New York last week, and how little has been said about preventing similar criminal operations being set up in future.

The i3Forum launches a new KYC code today. They are leading a united front against scams alongside Numeracle and the Cloud Communications Alliance.

Italian, Irish and Spanish authorities have recently mentioned the blocking of many scam calls. However, Endre Syvertsen of Telenor Linx warned that blocking is not enough.

There is also news about Brazil training teams to locate SMS blasters and research for China's Supreme Court revealed a loophole in their laws.

100,000 SIM cards were also seized.

A new know-your-customer code of conduct for bulk voice and messaging has been approved and published by the i3Forum. Next comes One Consortium and the regulators in GIRAF.

The MNO continued to fight victims of SIM swap crime in court despite 27,000 unauthorized SIM swaps between 2016 and February 2020.

In a world where everybody talks about using AI to stop crime, why is Google not vetting video adverts for equipment used by scammers?