MCMC found a 23 year old man driving around Johor Bahru with an SMS blaster that sent scam links. This was its fifth special operation against the devices during 2026.

Commsrisk has been asked to conduct research on behalf of the European Union into methods that prevent the spoofing of electronic communications and enable communications to be traced to their origin.

Police caught a 25 year old man driving through Sheung Shui, Hong Kong, with an active SMS blaster that had sent over 1,000 smishing messages.

Telcos have gone from public trusts to private cash machines for major banks and hedge funds as they tear the industry to pieces.

A new map in the Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard compares published SMS-blocking figures using a population-adjusted score.

SMS blasters operate outside legitimate mobile networks, but their activity can still be detected. This article explains how operators and regulators can identify false base stations by looking for radio, signalling and location anomalies.

Future Commsrisk articles will focus on the Global Fraud Dashboard: new graphs, noteworthy data, related news, and insights based on objective data.

I was thrown out of One Consortium, but that was the inevitable consequence of a plan I instigated in 2024. It is better to kill my career by issuing this final warning than by facilitating a sham designed to mislead regulators and hurt the public.

SMS farms are being used to gain API access to the Claude LLM at one-tenth of the correct price. There has always been more to learn about revenue assurance than corporations care to learn.

This Indian business was a pioneer of RAFM. CEO Nisha Dutt is failing to provide the firm with a new identity, purpose or sense of direction.

Google does some good work to tackle scams but its indifference to social media adverts for scam equipment is disgraceful. A new advert shows an SMS blaster impersonating Globe and Smart, the two largest telcos in the Philippines.

A 32 year old Chinese national was arrested by Austria's Cobra tactical police unit outside the Eurovision Song Contest. The scammer's 6 year old son was also in the car.