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Commsrisk Top Ten for March 2023

By Eric Priezkalns
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Which stories grabbed the attention of risk professionals working in the communications sector? These were the ten most popular Commsrisk articles during March.

Traffic to Commsrisk subsided after the vertiginous peaks experienced during January and February but March still ranked as the fourth-highest month for visitors in the history of the website. The global coverage map shows significantly increased readership compared to last year for every region except the Francophone countries of West Africa. This contrasts with the rising popularity of Commsrisk within France, which is now consistently established as one of the ten leading sources of traffic.

These were the ten most popular Commsrisk articles during March, ordered by the number of unique views.

  1. Facebook Experiments with Flash Calls
  2. What Mobile World Congress Showed Me about Sexism in the Communications Sector
  3. Paris IMSI-Catcher Mistaken for Bomb Was Actually Used for Health Insurance SMS Phishing Scam
  4. Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
  5. Elon Musk Has Radical Solution for A2P SMS Fraud: Twitter Turns Off 2-Factor Authentication by SMS
  6. Ericsson’s New $206mn Bribery Fine: Will They Ever Come Clean?
  7. First Australian Telco Found to Breach New Anti-Scam SMS Rules
  8. Sixth Suspect Arrested for Massive Paris IMSI-Catcher SMS Scam
  9. T-Mobile and TELUS Hacks Illustrate Why Telcos Should Pay for Their Own Policing
  10. Refusing to Share Fraud Data Is Turning Telcos into Scapegoats
Eric Priezkalns
Eric Priezkalnshttp://revenueprotect.com

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

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