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Has M-PESA Led to Half of All Kenyans Suffering SIM Swap Fraud?

By Eric Priezkalns 12 Apr 2023 Digital Money

No, but it is important to examine the prejudices that lead crime statistics to be amplified and exaggerated.


Mobile Games Used to Steal Cryptocurrency

By Eric Priezkalns 31 Mar 2023 Digital Money

Victims are enticed by rewards that increase as they add more funds to their cryptocurrency wallet. But when they stop playing, both the rewards and the cryptocurrency disappears.


Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Claims Safaricom Should Be Regulated as a Bank

By Eric Priezkalns 15 Mar 2023 Digital Money

Critics say the Kenyan mobile money pioneer uses customer funds to cover overdrafts. These overdrafts also attract SIM swap fraudsters.


Asia Is Racing Ahead with Digital Currencies (and Digital Risk Management Too)

By Eric Priezkalns 10 Feb 2023 Digital Money

Laos is copying Cambodia by turning cash into data. Indians will soon spend their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in retail stores.


Using Mobile Money to Issue and Repay Loans

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Dec 2022 Digital Money

Ugandan fintech business Numida says that 99 percent of their loans are made using mobile money.


Will Blockchain Turn Mobile Money into a Pan-African Payment System?

By Eric Priezkalns 13 Dec 2022 Digital Money

An African mobile money interoperability firm will partner with providers of cryptocurrency tech for low-cost international transfers.


How Telcos Could Lose Billions from Ultrafast Transactions

By David Morrow 9 Dec 2022 Digital Money

James Zhong stole USD3.3bn in cryptocurrency by executing many rapid withdrawals from online accounts.


PayPal Says Plan to Fine Customers for Exercising Free Speech Was an ‘Error’

By Eric Priezkalns 14 Oct 2022 Digital Money

PayPal wrote a policy allowing them to take USD2,500 from the accounts of customers deemed guilty of ‘promoting misinformation’.


GVG Wants Africans to Have a Digital Identity So It Is Easier to Tax Them

By Eric Priezkalns 16 Sep 2022 Digital Money

Siphoning money from stealth taxes on voice is only an intermediary stage in the business plan for Global Voice Group (GVG).


Welcome U-Turn Sees 43% Cut to Tanzania’s Mobile Money Tax

By Eric Priezkalns 8 Jul 2022 Digital Money

Other governments should also seek to learn from Tanzanian policies that backfired.


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Our most recent episode tackled the thorny issue of nuisance robocalls and call authentication from several different perspectives. The guests were robocall researcher Sathik Prasad, network engineering veteran Pierce Gorman and Feng Hao, Professor of Security Engineering at Warwick University.

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