General

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.

More people have read last month's top story than any other article this year.

An American business with an international clientele cited various examples of crime that challenge cultural assumptions.

The police can be impartial about the methods needed to tackle crime when businesses are letting the rest of society down.

These stories grabbed the attention of humans and AIs.

Have you heard of the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act? If passed into law, America's Sheriffs will impose their version of law and order on your country.

Professor Kim Yongdae of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has a message for telcos that get hacked and for the regulators that oversee them.

These were the hottest articles that Commsrisk published during September, plus some insights into the impact that AI is having on visitors to this website.

My contributions to Commsrisk will be reduced to three articles per week as the website pivots towards more automatically-generated charts representing data from around the world.

The most popular Commsrisk articles of last month included lots of statistics and lots of photographs of SMS blasters.

Were they spying on phone users or committing fraud? Tense relations with China and the politicization of similar arrests makes it difficult to judge.

Carter-Ruck sent libel threats to financial experts who rightly warned that OneCoin was a giant scam.