An Ofcom consultation about international calls that spoof mobile numbers represents a step in the right direction but regulators in other countries have gone further in less time.

My contributions to Commsrisk will be reduced to three articles per week as the website pivots towards more automatically-generated charts representing data from around the world.

There was also a 5-year prison sentence for Issa Asad, CEO of Q Link Wireless, a provider of comms services to customers in 31 US states.

The Swiss NCSC believes a fake base station is being used for a typical SMS blaster scam while South Korea's government believes a base station was used to intercept 2FA SMS messages meant for the victims of a recent fraud.

It is good that telcos are now publicly talking about scams. It would be better to independently monitor how effectively they block them.

Consumer groups criticized the regulatory u-turn and said it would encourage more scam calls.

There are striking similarities between the methods used in this case and how fake base stations have previously been used in China and the Philippines.

There are a lot of crazy people in the USA. Some of them are running the USA.

Collaboration in fraud prevention has not kept pace with the rate at which users adopt mobile money services.

The most popular Commsrisk articles of last month included lots of statistics and lots of photographs of SMS blasters.

A circular dated July 25 wants French public servants to make more use of Tchap from September 1.

Hackers obtained data about 850,000 customers of Orange Belgium.