Risk, Fraud & Security

A new report from scamhunter collective Demurrage also explains how US comms providers RingCentral and Bandwidth allow foreign call centers to defraud Americans.

All countries are invited to join an intergovernmental alliance of law enforcement against telecom and cyber fraud, with a permanent secretariat in China.

A revealing email from Sinch to Microsoft was also accidentally sent to the Demurrage scamhunter collective.

If found guilty, the former CFO and former Chief of Delivery each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Readers may recognize an orange converter used to power one of the rogue base stations, and other similarities with crimes committed around the world.

The scamhunter group called Demurrage published a comprehensive dossier of evidence they compiled.

The scourge of smishing messages sent by rogue base stations is spreading across Europe but national leaders ignore the underlying security threat.

Americans are losing increasing amounts to frauds initiated by phone but the US comms regulator conceals evidence showing how ineffectual its consumer protection strategy really is.

The Serbian government said the criminals belonged to a gang that operates across 'several' European countries.

There is not much anyone would argue with in the statement issued by the Global Informal Regulatory Antifraud Forum (GIRAF), but that is a problem as well as a strength.

Stopping a car with one rogue base station led the police to a Phnom Penh lock-up which stored many others.

The human cost of corporate indifference is greater than the financial cost.