Risk, Fraud & Security

Commsrisk has been asked to conduct research on behalf of the European Union into methods that prevent the spoofing of electronic communications and enable communications to be traced to their origin.

Police caught a 25 year old man driving through Sheung Shui, Hong Kong, with an active SMS blaster that had sent over 1,000 smishing messages.

SMS blasters operate outside legitimate mobile networks, but their activity can still be detected. This article explains how operators and regulators can identify false base stations by looking for radio, signalling and location anomalies.

I was thrown out of One Consortium, but that was the inevitable consequence of a plan I instigated in 2024. It is better to kill my career by issuing this final warning than by facilitating a sham designed to mislead regulators and hurt the public.

A 32 year old Chinese national was arrested by Austria's Cobra tactical police unit outside the Eurovision Song Contest. The scammer's 6 year old son was also in the car.

Arrests by South Korean police include the CEO of an SMS messaging platform and a systems administrator at an MVNO.

International harmonization of KYC must come through negotiation, not by one country seeking to dominate.

Few details were provided but the crime fits a well-established pattern.

Around 400 Kenyans have been repatriated from scam compounds in Asia after being lured by fraudulent job adverts on social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.

Dafeng Lin, Junmin Shi and Weitong Hu have been charged with 44 offenses in total.

Mobile operator Tele2 helped the authorities to locate the rogue base station.

This is the eighth SMS blaster found in the city since July 2024.