Mobileum Seeks More Takeovers
The California-headquartered suppliers of risk and security technology will also continue recruiting in India, which will be home to over two-thirds of their global headcount.
Eric Priezkalns
Half of All Australian Scams Begin with Voice Calls
Losses to scams increased by 84 percent in 2021 but there was also a 50 percent reduction in the number of phone scams reported.
Commsrisk Top Ten for June 2022
Which articles grabbed the attention of your peers? These were the ten most popular Commsrisk posts during June.
The Million-Pound British Alternative to the Billion-Dollar STIR/SHAKEN Program
Prof. Feng Hao of Warwick University has a bottom-up method for checking CLIs that could be much cheaper than the US approach.
MTN Nigeria Subsidiary Demands Banks Return $54mn of ‘Wrong’ Mobile Money Transactions
Usoro Usoro, CEO of MoMo Payment Service Bank, submitted a court affidavit about 700,000 improper transfers to 18 different banks.
Last Week to Respond to i3forum-RAG Survey on International Wholesale Fraud
It takes just 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire but all submissions must be made by the end of July 6.
RA Propaganda in Nigeria Shows Folly of Get-Rich-Quick Mentality
The 217mn inhabitants of the world’s seventh-largest country are told that telcos need revenue assurance to be imposed from outside.
RAG Goes to Sydney
The Risk & Assurance Group (RAG) will hold its AsiaPac conference in downtown Sydney on October 19 and 20.
Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?
The pandemic affected how people read Commsrisk, but not in the ways you might expect.
The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error
A customer was lured into making an expensive international call but her error was made hundreds of times worse by her telco incorrectly recording the call’s duration.