Risk, Fraud & Security

Ghana's Communications Minister blames telcos and agents for flaws in the current register of SIM cards.

Public awareness of fraud is what you seek if you are not able or willing to take more effective forms of action.

Take a look at the slides for Joseph Nderitu's powerful keynote lecture at RAG Johannesburg 2019 and ask yourself how you would respond to being the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Securing networks is a top priority, with the result that Mobileum keeps being nominated for awards.

The Communications Fraud Control Association has issued its 2019 Global Fraud Loss Survey and Digital Identity Cybercrime Report. However, some of the figures are obviously wrong.

Simple maths shows the Communications Fraud Control Association Global Fraud Survey was answered by only 61 telcos in 2019, though this was many more than responded in 2017.

The 2019 Fraud Report from the ITW Global Leaders' Forum presents an ambitious but credible plan to defeat fraud.

South African banks can use MTN's Subscriber Identity for Third Parties (SIFT) system to check if a SIM was recently changed.

October saw unprecedented concern about wangiri fraud from a wide variety of countries.

UK police statistics show there is a disparity between the number of reported SIM swap frauds and the amount of attention they generate in the media.

Three UK warned other firms that someone was impersonating Dave Parr, but they did not bother to check with the customer.

The survey also found that technology, media and telecoms (TMT) businesses suffered less internal fraud.