Risk, Fraud & Security
10 Year Prison Sentence for US SIM Swapper; Another Indicted
Californian prosecutors will send a SIM swapper to prison whilst New York launches its first SIM swap prosecution.
Women’s Website Blames Facebook Quizzes for SIM Swaps
A lousy journalist pieced together half-truths about social media and privacy in the hope of sustaining the UK's SIM swap panic.
Is There a Rising Problem with Allocated but Unused Number Ranges?
Biaas argues fraudsters exploit destinations on carrier price lists which cannot be used for normal international termination.
China Keeps Extraditing Telecoms Fraudsters
The People's Republic of China extradited scammers from Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Philippines during 2018. Tensions with Taiwan stopped them from extraditing more.
Now SIM Swaps Are Fake News Too
Liars are using social media to spread myths about the way fraudsters take control of phone accounts.
Indian Telco and Bank Ordered to Compensate SIM Swap Victim
All of the stolen money will now be refunded to the customer, more than three years after it was taken.
32 Months of Prison for Hacker Who Knocked Liberia Offline
Daniel Kaye launched massive DDoS attacks at Liberian network Lonestar after being hired by rival telco Cellcom.
Should Social Networks Do More to Stop Account Takeover?
Not unless users do more to protect themselves.
SIM Swappers Steal USD200k from South African Business
The Vodacom SIM of a businessman was targeted whilst he was overseas.
15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites Seized by FBI
The criminal services had been used to launch hundreds of thousands of distributed denial of service attacks.
Indonesians Complain about Wangiri Calls from UAE
The calls appear to originate from a provider of mobile satellite services.
Corruption: The Often Neglected Focus
To sustainably counter the risk of internal fraud and corruption we must motivate every employee to observe and report suspicious behavior.
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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