Risk, Fraud & Security

The fake base stations sent messages claiming recipients had to pay a traffic fine.

Mobile operator AIS worked with police to locate the fake base station just 6 days after it was first driven around Bangkok.

Is this a sincere attempt to protect Americans from scams or a partisan political stunt?

A young man that impersonated leading banks by driving an SMS blaster around Auckland was given a light sentence because the judge thought he had hurt his chances of renewing his student visa.

The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone is the equivalent of Las Vegas during its Mafia era. It provides a safe haven for scam compounds alongside gambling and prostitution rackets.

We might need to start doing a regular global round-up of news involving crimes and fake base stations.

A simple trick has inserted bogus support numbers into URLs that people will see in their web browsers when visiting the real websites of Netflix, Microsoft and Apple.

The Royal Oman Police shared the news of the arrest with a slickly-produced video that warns the public about clicking links in SMS messages.

Cases from Nigeria and South Korea illustrate how criminals exploit the same human anxieties worldwide.

CEO Yoo Young-sang announced a KRW500bn (USD370mn) customer giveaway alongside a KRW700bn (USD510mn) plan to invest in security.

The people forced to work in scam compounds have been trafficked from 66 different countries and from every continent.

You may have seen some of this news already. You almost certainly missed some of the other news. And have any detectives noticed a distinctively-colored connection?