Risk, Fraud & Security
Dealer Commits Fraud Using Fake Fingerprints
6,000 Vodafone SIMs were activated by creating bogus fingerprints using data downloaded from India's national biometric database.
Is There a Global Surge of Wangiri?
Public warnings have recently been issued in a variety of different countries.
5G, IoT and SIMs Are a Dangerous Combination
Increasing the speed of transmission and the number of devices connected to a network will magnify the inherent security vulnerabilities of SIM cards.
Fraudsters Spoof Phone Number of Chinese Embassy
Criminals are trying to scam money by calling victims and telling them invented stories about kidnappings and accidents.
Uganda Fights Crime by Ending Prepaid Scratch Cards
President Museveni is responding to a spate of kidnappings, but banning scratch cards will also benefit telcos by reducing fraud.
US Considers Bill-and-Keep Fix for Toll Free Arbitrage
The FCC proposes a three-year plan that would tackle the motivation for inter-carrier fraud and traffic pumping.
US Fraud Email Operation Yields 74 Arrests
Business email compromise schemes are not going away, as demonstrated by the number recently arrested by US federal authorities.
5 Ways to Heat Up Your Fraud Hotline
Whistleblowing hotlines are a good source of intelligence, but staff need to be encouraged to use them.
YouTube AI Flags 80% of Unsafe Videos
YouTube removed over 8mn unsafe videos during the last three months of 2017. Most were taken down before anyone saw them.
US to Adopt Digital Signing of Calls after Record $120mn Robocall Fine
The SHAKEN/STIR framework uses SIP for real-time authentication of certificates linked to originating numbers.
LATRO and Mobius Partner on Sale of Bypass Fraud Solutions
The vendors are promising that their collective systems will combine real-time signaling data with predictive analytics.
Former BT CFO Loses $675K Bonus After Failing to Spot Fraud
A very rich former exec who worked at BT for over 20 years will have slightly less money to spend during his retirement.
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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