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Activists File GDPR Complaint about A1 Telekom Austria

The burden on telcos to provide data to customers could be greatly increased if the activists who destroyed the US-EU data protection safe harbor succeed with their latest legal challenge.

Mobile Money vs Government: Zimbabwe’s Leading Mobile Money Service Resists Suspension

Zimbabwe's Information Secretary Nick Mangwana blamed telcos for "fraudulent generation of money".

Business Partnering: Making Revenue Assurance More Effective

How should the RA team increase its influence across the business?

RAG TV: Data Drift and Reducing False Positives for Fraud Cases

Drift means any automated model for evaluating fraud risk needs to be updated, no matter how sophisticated the technology used.

How GRAPA Defeats Other Associations on Social Media

Other providers of education to RAFM practitioners should ask themselves why GRAPA is so much more popular than they are.

Succeeding Too Much: Regulator Says MTN Ghana Dominates Mobile Money

MTN Ghana will not have succeeded without taking risks, raising a question about regulators punishing telcos for good decisions.

BT Has Financial Reporting Internal Control Weaknesses per KPMG Review

BT said material weaknesses identified with general IT controls and risk assessments related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Privacy Breach at Virtual Telecoms Conference

Delegates of the Virtual ITW conference were warned their profile information, including their messages, could be accessed by other users if personalized hyperlinks had been forwarded to them.

RAG TV: Bypass Fraud and the Small Carrier’s Perspective

An expert in fraud detection and the owner of a niche international carrier were the guests on the first episode of a new series of RAG TV.

Spanish Police Disconnect Pirate IPTV Service with 2mn Customers

Over 40,000 television channels, movies and series were used to generate an estimated USD17mn of illegal profit.

Obituary for Ambrose Nwadike

Well-known telecoms risk consultant Ambrose Nwadike died last week; fellow professionals paid tribute to a true gentleman.

Where Are the Black Telecoms Risk Experts?

There will be no change in the racial mix of the 'leaders' of our global profession until black and white people recognize the need to change their approach to education.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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