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Risk, Fraud & Security

9 Telco Insiders Arrested for Bypass Fraud in Venezuela

Tarek William Saab, Prosecutor General of Venezuela, accused employees of mobile operator Movilnet of using servers in Miami to reroute traffic and avoid international termination fees.

RAG and i3forum Join Forces Against Wholesale Fraud

i3forum's Fight Against Fraud group, chaired by Katia Gonzalez Gutierrez of BICS, drives expectations for how international wholesale voice carriers cooperate to reduce crime.

US Adopts Anti-Robocall Law With Global Implications

The TRACED Act demands US telcos authenticate calls over IP and TDM networks, but the provisions for international enforcement and tackling wangiri fraud also raise questions for foreign telcos.

India Shuts Down Internet Over 100 Times for Second Year in a Row

The Indian economy has lost billions of dollars as a consequence of the government suspending internet services.

UK Reg Decides Crime Prevention Does Not Justify Handset Locking

Ofcom, the UK regulator, wants to ban the locking of mobile phones to networks, saying it is 'not essential' to reducing fraud.

Teenage SIM Swapper Accused of Stealing $1mn

Yousef Selassie took control of 75 phone accounts held by individuals believed to own cryptocurrency.

New Report Says Araxxe, LATRO and SIGOS Are Best Suppliers of Simbox Detection

Rocco Research repeated the evaluation exercise they also conducted in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Why Has Subex Joined the RAG Wangiri Blockchain?

Rohit Maheshwari, Head Of Strategy and Products at Subex, explained why their market-leading fraud management system will connect to the global blockchain ledger of wangiri attacks.

Subex FMS Will Connect Users to Global Anti-Wangiri Blockchain

Hundreds of users of Subex's fraud management system will be able to exchange intelligence via an API to the RAG Wangiri Blockchain.

Ericsson Pays $1bn to Settle US Bribery Case

The US Department of Justice has detailed some of the eye-watering amounts spent on bribes to win contracts from governments and telcos in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Djibouti and Kuwait.

The Need for Anti-Fraud Partnerships: GBSDTech and the RAG Wangiri Blockchain

Jeffrey Ross, COO of GBSD Technologies, explains why he believes businesses must work together to defeat wangiri and other frauds.

Mobileum, Syniverse and Tomia Named Top Providers of IRSF Prevention

Instead of telling us that International Revenue Share Fraud is important, vendors should state what they can do to prevent it.

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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