The Radar That Hears Your Phone Calls
A growing number of devices use radio waves in the mmWave band, making it easier to adapt this technology for nefarious purposes.
Eric Priezkalns
Is Flash Calling a Fraud?
Businesses like Whatsapp are intentionally using the A-number of calls that are not connected as a free mechanism for passing data to apps on a user’s phone.
Last Day of i3forum-RAG Wholesale Fraud Survey
We need joined-up thinking to solve problems that cross borders and cause harm to ordinary people everywhere. Joined-up solutions start with a common understanding of problems we face.
Vigilante Used Traffic-Pumping Fraud to Pay for Denial of Service Attacks on Robocall Scammers
US telecoms fraud can be so convoluted that just describing the crime gives you a headache.
Turning Towards Today’s Risk Priorities
There are so many Commsrisk articles about nuisance calling and Cold War 2 that each topic deserves a separate category.
Chief Target of New US Robocall Crackdown Is American Banned from Telemarketing in 2013
Roy Cox was never made to pay a USD1.1mn penalty for past violations but is now blamed for 3.5% of all US robocalls since 2018.
What Is the Cost of Rogers’ 15-Hour National Outage?
A leading Canadian telco failed emergency services, banks and retailers as well as phone users, but the cost of the backlash is likely to be far worse than just the revenues lost and compensation paid.
Survey Says Regulators Not Doing Enough to Stop Fraud
The new i3forum-RAG survey of international wholesale fraud showed widespread dissatisfaction with regulatory frameworks.
Welcome U-Turn Sees 43% Cut to Tanzania’s Mobile Money Tax
Other governments should also seek to learn from Tanzanian policies that backfired.
Calls with STIR/SHAKEN C-Attestation Almost 6 Times More Likely to Be Robocalls than Unsigned Calls
One billion bad calls were ‘authenticated’ during June by systems which were supposed to protect Americans from bad calls.