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Chinese Video Uses Comedy and History to Raise Awareness of Phone Fraud

A classic of Chinese literature was reimagined as a warning not to trust phone calls from strangers.

Why Are US Child Abuse Stats Used In a UK Government Campaign Against E2E Comms Encryption?

Serious policy goals like child protection deserve a serious commitment to objective facts.

Indian Activist Challenges Police Use of Facial Recognition

The police in Hyderabad want to connect 440,000 CCTV cameras to their facial recognition system.

What Legendary Quarterback Tom Brady Taught Us about Risk Management

The winner of seven Super Bowls had a philosophy for playing the game that can also be applied to our work.

Wangiri News from Iran, Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland and Turkey

Our new round-up includes a telco that failed to block a large wangiri attack despite implementing an anti-wangiri blocking system.

Second Israeli Spyware Business Exploited iPhone Zero-Click Vulnerabilities

QuaDream independently developed methods to install spyware using the same FORCEDENTRY vulnerability as NSO Group.

Indian Scam Call Centers Targeted by US Prosecutors

Six call centers are accused of generating 'tens of millions of scam calls'.

Why RAG Conferences Will Not Be Televised

Video networking cannot replicate in-person conferences. The Risk & Assurance Group will maintain two distinct forms of engagement: physical meetings like RAG Dubai and new seasons of RAG TV.

Commsrisk Top Ten for January 2022

The top news story in January was about one telco's success in protecting customers from crime.

The FBI Purchased Pegasus Phone Spyware

After two years of evaluation, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation decided against using the notorious Israeli-developed spyware shortly before the Biden administration blacklisted its makers.

Nigerian Government Says RA System Will Collect More Than Double the Tax from Telcos

A widely-reported press release includes an unbelievable forecast for the value to be generated by a national revenue assurance system.

Mobileum Bought by Private Equity Firm

CEO Bobby Srinivasan has grown his company through acquisitions and given it the scale necessary to attract new private equity owners HIG Capital.

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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