Crime and misery featured heavily among the most widely-read articles of last year. Commsrisk's future will place more emphasis on objective data with the hope it will positively influence policy.

East is beating West at tackling a key enabler of networked crime. The changing dynamic could render Western anti-fraud policies obsolete.

Spammers and scammers use SIMs and simboxes to make huge numbers of online communication accounts. India's government and telcos are standing up to US internet firms like Meta which benefit from this abuse.

Virtue must be its own reward if good is to prevail over evil. That truth lives in the hearts of these unsung heroes.

The UN and INTERPOL will host the next Global Fraud Summit in a country where inhabitants complain they cannot notify the police of scam messages.

Trials involving real-life customers will begin imminently with the intention to demand facial recognition for all new mobile lines from March 23, 2026.

The producers spent over a year researching the global empires of Chinese cyber fraud syndicates, traveling the world to interview police, criminals and me.

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The Serbian government said the criminals belonged to a gang that operates across 'several' European countries.

There is not much anyone would argue with in the statement issued by the Global Informal Regulatory Antifraud Forum (GIRAF), but that is a problem as well as a strength.

If there has to be legal permission to get traceback data from the entire route then traceback can easily be defeated, even if there is blanket permission from the originating and terminating countries.

Stopping a car with one rogue base station led the police to a Phnom Penh lock-up which stored many others.