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Study Blames Low Pay for Mobile Money Fraud in Ghana

It was also reported that some Ghanian mobile money operators have a lax control environment from top to bottom.

Kenyan Parliament Seeks to Regulate Social Media

Moses Injendi MP wants fines and prison sentences for unregistered bloggers and administrators of social media groups.

Commsrisk Top Ten for September 2019

The charts for September's most popular Commsrisk articles were dominated by stories about wangiri fraud.

RAG Learning Offers Certification for All Courses

Students using RAG's online training system can now obtain certificates of completion for any course. Meanwhile, September attracted a record number of active users.

Gambia Seeks National RA Deal Despite Controversies

Gambian Information Minister Ebrima Sillah wants to purchase a tool to monitor international gateway revenues amidst accusations of fraud and misspending both at home and abroad.

Corruption Scandal Expected to Cost Ericsson $1.2bn

The leading network vendor believes they have violated US anti-corruption laws and will need to pay USD1bn in fines as punishment for how their staff did business in six countries.

Telstra CEO Says They Blocked 2.9mn Scam Calls in July

Andrew Penn, boss of Australia's largest telco, called for industry, government and regulators to collaborate on wangiri fraud.

Sprint Wrongly Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Inactive Customers

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Sprint's actions were "outrageous". The merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US may now be in jeopardy.

Are You Using the Leakage Catalogue Yet?

There are hundreds of crowdsourced leakage examples in the RAG Leakage Catalog but the international benchmarking survey takes just 10 minutes to complete.

EU Operation Disconnects 800,000 Pirate TV Viewers

Over 200 servers were seized on the same day by authorities in several European countries.

Auditor Questions Spending by Kenyan Regulator

The official auditor says the Communications Authority of Kenya has failed to account for billions of shillings of expenditure.

58% Rise in US Wangiri Since Beginning of 2019, Claims Report

Americans also receive 16 nuisance calls per month on average, according to Hiya, suppliers of robocall-blocking apps.

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