Authorities in South Korea want scammers to return from compounds in China, Cambodia and the Philippines. In other news, NZ police found the country's first SMS smishing blaster.

A robust whistleblowing procedure is a deterrent to wrongdoing by staff.

There is an amnesty and financial rewards for Koreans who return to their homeland from foreign scam compounds.

The authorities were coy about how many victims may have received smishing messages.

The work done by institutions can be dominated by silos and categories; criminals exploit the cracks between them.

Nobody at the FCC looked closely at the submission from a man called Bhavesh about a business called Bhavesh.

A comprehensive and consistent approach that will coordinate anti-scam activity across sectors will be backed by tough penalties for organizations that fail to play their part.

This week we examine how regulators are creating or overcoming barriers to cooperation via news from Australia, the UK and the USA.

Fraud prevention is a goal that be oddly disconnected from other developments in the technology of telecoms.

There are always more privacy breaches by AT&T but the excuses remain the same and the penalties remain light.

There is both a physical and digital dimension to trusting suppliers, as apparent from Ericsson's bid to harmonize network APIs, excuses for an AT&T privacy lapse, and mayhem in Lebanon.

The Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) of the Thai police has accomplished a lot during its first four years.