Ghana’s Telcos Collectively Block 28,000 SIMs in Common Bid to Stop Mobile Money Fraud
Tricky fraudsters deliberately misspell their messages in the hope of evading automated filters.
Tanzania Restricts Number of SIMs per Customer
Subscribers will need to write to the regulator if they want more than one phone line from the same operator.
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.
Big Bill for Charity That Tracked Roaming Stork
Polish environmental group EcoLogic was charged for voice calls made in Sudan.
KYC Uganda Style: Keep Your Cards
The regulator’s botched implementation of controls to verify who buys SIMs has taken work away from young people and caused a nightmare for telcos.
SIM Card Registration: The Customer Knows Himself
Many customers are honest, so why not follow the example of Rwanda, where customers are encouraged to identify SIMs that have been wrongly associated with them?
SIM Card Registration: Exchanging Some Risks for Others
Mandatory registration of SIM cards is reducing simbox fraud in Uganda, but there are downsides.
Nigeria Cuts MTN Fine to $1.7bn
The fine for failing to disconnect unregistered SIMs is a third of that originally threatened by the Nigerian government.
Sims In The Cloud
Sim multiplexing means that sim cards can remain in a single safe physical location whilst being used to virtually execute RA and fraud test calls from devices around the world.
MTN Nigeria Fined $5bn for Not Blocking SIMs
The failure to meet a Nigerian security requirement has destroyed 20 percent of the value of MTN Group.