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Canadian Police Arrest SIM Swappers Who Manufactured Fake IDs
60 phones and 200 SIM cards were seized, along with ID scanners, credit card printers, gold bars and bundles of cash in multiple currencies.
Legal Shenanigans from Insurance Companies Shows Why the USA Is Incapable of Reducing Nuisance Calls
Some of the scummiest abusers of telemarketing have hired expensive lawyers to argue their unwanted robocalls and robotexts are protected by the constitutional right to free speech.
Artificial Inflation of Traffic: An Existential Threat to Application-to-Person Messaging?
We need to tackle every type of AIT, not just the type where bots are used to exploit enterprises.
T-Mobile Staff Receive SMS Messages Offering $300 Per SIM Swap
Telcos have often played down the significance of breaches of employee data. They should be talking about controls to stop employees colluding with fraudsters.
US Politicians Vote to Force Sale of TikTok
Fans of the popular social media platform choose to ignore genuine privacy and security concerns.
i3Forum and ITW GLF Tackle IRSF Fraud with Opt-Out for Revenue Share Numbers
26 international wholesale voice carriers have agreed to an amended code of conduct that gives telcos the choice not to send traffic to premium-rate ranges.
This IMSI-Catcher Video Will Scare You
The marketing of IMSI-catchers demonstrates a desire to sell them to bad actors. It also shows why governments should be doing more to prevent sales of equipment used by criminals.
Urgent Security Advances Needed to Trust Mobile Caller IDs
Even the spread of new 5G networks will not prevent the manipulation of CLIs.
BICS Says It Stopped Over $90mn of Fraudulent Traffic in 2023
The international wholesale carrier identified large rises in the number of robocalls and smishing messages that needed to be blocked.
5 Ways That Brazil’s STIR/SHAKEN Is Different
Brazil has begun testing its approach to validating telemarketing calls but the STIR/SHAKEN lobbyists who act on behalf of US businesses do not want to talk about it. These are the reasons why.
Three Greek Telcos Raided by Probe into Anti-Competitive Collusion over EU-Funded Contracts
Cosmote, Vodafone and Nova rank amongst the biggest providers of telephony and pay-TV services in Greece.
77 Arrested in Zambian Scam Call Center That Targeted Victims in Peru, Singapore and UAE
22 Chinese nationals were amongst those apprehended during a raid that also seized simboxes and over 13,000 SIM cards.
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