Euro Police Shut Down Four Call Centers Selling Cryptocurrency Investment Scam
German victims were lured into paying EUR2mn for bogus investments advertised on social media and the web.
German victims were lured into paying EUR2mn for bogus investments advertised on social media and the web.
A search of government-run telecoms facilities in Thailand led to the disconnection of 30 cables that ran across the border.
Twitter accounts were created solely to generate revenue for telcos from two-factor authentication SMS messages.
Geoff Ibbett released version 0.1 of the RAG Fraud Catalog just in time to present it at RAG Sydney. The subsequent response from telcos has been enthusiastic.
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation said they acted on intelligence from foreign police, including the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sometimes important questions receive answers that are not really answers.
Some fraudsters work for telcos. They may even appear to be a good employee with an impressive record for delivery. How should a fraud manager handle them?
Losses to scams increased by 84 percent in 2021 but there was also a 50 percent reduction in the number of phone scams reported.
This fraud will be difficult to detect because it challenges assumptions about how fraudsters work, even though it relies on an old psychological ploy.
The first part in a series about holding telecoms bosses accountable for corruption features the stories of Kurt Hellström and Carl-Henric Svanberg, two former CEOs at Ericsson.