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Review of the TMF Fraud Survey

This survey generated similar results to others, but needs more respondents to improve its credibility.

John Haraburda, iconectiv

John Haraburda is the Principal Solutions Engineer Director at iconectiv, a role which makes him responsible for managing their critical business operations and spearheading...

Arnd Baranowski, Oculeus

Arnd Baranowski is the founder and CEO of Oculeus, a business that supplies innovative business support systems and anti-fraud solutions. After studying aerospace technology,...

Watch Hackers Using SS7 to Hijack Whatsapp

End-to-end encryption in messaging tools like Whatsapp can be rendered irrelevant by duplicating the victim's account.

Duncan Beanland, Vodafone

Duncan is Senior Manager, Fraud Management at Vodafone, where he runs their IDD fraud prevention team.Our November London meeting will begin with a major...

Amit Jain, Mobileum

Amit Jain is the Director of Product Management at Mobileum. He has many years of product management and product marketing experience especially in...

Simboxing Ghanaian Real Estate Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

The judge described the sentence as "lenient".

Nigeria Cuts MTN Fine to $1.7bn

The fine for failing to disconnect unregistered SIMs is a third of that originally threatened by the Nigerian government.

Israeli Firm Says They Can Use SS7 to Bug Any GSM Phone

The CEO of Ability Inc says their Unlimited Interception System can track the location, calls and messages of phones everywhere.

Alex Taverner, Cybersecurity Consultant

Alex has over twenty years’ experience, working across the UK, Australia and Southeast Asia as a security expert and CIO. He is a frequent...

Summer Conference: 7th & 8th July 2016

The big RAG summer conference will see our typically strong line-up of UK experts joined by professionals who work in Africa, the Middle East, and around Europe

Martin Laesch, Neural Technologies

Martin Laesch is the Chief Technology Officer of Neural Technologies and a specialist in telco rating, billing, number portability, software and system architecture. He...

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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