Nuisance & Spam
US Says No Need for Telcos to Pay $3.3mn Illegal Robocall Penalty If They Cannot Afford It
What is the point of calculating a hefty nominal punishment if it can be neutralized by showing an empty bank statement?
Another Bad US Proposal Wants More Punishment for Telcos Instead of Punishing Robocallers
The FCC wastes time on bad data from biased lobbyists when the universal answer to crime is to punish the criminals responsible.
Arkansas Anti-Robocall Law Shows Why Other Countries Do Not Want to Help the USA
A country cannot make rules for others if it cannot agree consistent rules within its own borders.
US Telco Leaders Argue Against FCC Plan to Impose STIR/SHAKEN on International Carriers
Key people at AT&T, Lumen and Verizon warned against proposals that would cost 'tens of millions of dollars' but yield little benefit.
Big US Telcos Ignored STIR/SHAKEN Deadline; No Punishment Yet
Bandwidth and Vonage missed the FCC's June 30 deadline but the regulator was unaware until paperwork was submitted in October.
More Fun and Craziness from the Second Phase of the US Consultation on Making Foreigners Do STIR/SHAKEN
The politics surrounding the US protocol for authenticating the origin of calls is such a mess that it has become highly entertaining.
‘Foreign Evil Actors’ vs Network ‘Sanctity’: Fevered Response to Latest US Robocall Consultation
The US telecoms industry desperately needs to make friends as well as issuing threats.
The Senior Politician Convicted of Robocalling (and Why It Matters)
A graduate of one of the USA's most prestigious law schools learned that not every country has weak rules about robocall spam.
Has the UK Regulator Just Ordered the Blocking of Foreign Scam Calls?
No, Ofcom has not ordered widespread blocking of international calls. But risk managers should understand why the BBC said they had.
The ‘Amazing’ Correlation that Reveals the Flaw in US Robocalling Rules
Data shows that fraudsters have perverted STIR/SHAKEN to obtain positive attestations for robocalls made to US consumers.
Blocking Traffic May Also Block People
Telcos should not rely on unfounded assumptions when making decisions that might harm ordinary people.
Robocalling Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists Threatened with $5mn FCC Fine
Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl used robocalls to suppress the vote in the US 2020 elections by lying about the use of voter data.
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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