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Big New Study Shows Recipients Should Be Encouraged to Report Phishing Messages

Some people are likely to fall for phishing messages, whilst others are very good at identifying and reporting them.

What Multilingual Spam Tells Us about Fraud

The fundamental economics of crime remain the same, whether the vehicle is an international email or an international voice call.

How to Secure Email

There have been several attempts to improve the security and privacy of email. A new academic paper explores why each attempt has struggled to gain acceptance.

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.

Email Extortion Aimed at Ashley Madison Users

Our industry needs to think seriously about how we maintain the integrity of email addresses, if we want to keep using them as a key that opens access to other online services.

Hackers Charged With Stealing One Billion Email Addresses

US prosecutors accuse two Vietnamese of hacking into 8 email providers, then unleashing spam which generated USD2mn of revenues via the marketing websites of a Canadian conspirator.

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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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