There was news inside and outside of the MEF Anti-Fraud conference in Brussels, including startling statistics about scams, lots of conversation about Google's role in safeguarding messaging, some confidence about the future of digital identities in the EU, and reasons to be grateful for Thailand's police.

The Grand Poobah of GRAPA must be desperate.

A marketing firm boasted about displaying adverts that match what was said in private calls, the Indian regulator wants to reduce P2P spam by hiking prices for heavy users, there was another mass deportation of suspected scammers from Myanmar to China, and a scoundrel attempted to make contact.

Phone users gave permission to be spied upon by marketeers when agreeing to the terms of an app they downloaded.

TRAI also suggests increased use of honeypots.

Over 46,000 fraudsters have been deported in total.

The FCC says it wants KYC but refuses to say what that means in practice.

India is showing that consumers can be protected using blockchains.

A state-owned business has established something called the 'China-ASEAN Cross-Border Trusted Identity Trust Center'.

A clever innovation that will reduce smishing in India, a potentially huge development in the way China will tackle Asian scam compounds, another US robocall failure dressed up as success, and an arrest with serious implications in France.

Individual nations that try to control global comms are pretending they can enforce their culture's moral expectations everywhere.

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