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Insider commentary on the risks faced by comms providers and their customers since 2006. commsrisk.com Joined March 2010

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24 hours ago

Will the UK Ban VPNs? - commsrisk.com/?p=51295 Probably not, but a surge of downloads for Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers has demonstrated why democracies will struggle to control what people see.

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3 days ago

I see David Lammy is trending. Is now a good time to remind everybody that Britain's Deputy Prime Minister is one of the few people who has been fined for making thousands of illegal phone calls? commsrisk.com/the-senior-pol…

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3 days ago

7 Weird Things about the Massive New York Simbox Bust - commsrisk.com/?p=52189 Much has been said about the threats supposedly uncovered by the US Secret Service in New York last week. Nothing has been said about preventing similar criminal operations in future.

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4 days ago

Welcoming a New Global Know Your Customer Code of Conduct - commsrisk.com/?p=52187 The i3Forum launches a new KYC code today. They are leading a united front against scams alongside Numeracle and the Cloud Communications Alliance.

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5 days ago

Leading Anti-Fraud Expert Says Blocking Millions of Scam Calls Is Unsustainable - commsrisk.com/?p=52095 Italian, Irish and Spanish authorities have recently mentioned the blocking of many scam calls. However, Endre Syvertsen of Telenor Linx warned that blocking is not enough.

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a week ago

4 Rogue Base Stations Linked to KT Micropayments Fraud; 2 Chinese Nationals Arrested - commsrisk.com/?p=52128 There is also news about Brazil training teams to locate SMS blasters and research for China's Supreme Court revealed a loophole in their laws.

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a week ago

US telcos: "We gather lots of data about the location of our customers that we can sell to businesses for a profit!" Also US telcos: "How were we supposed to know that somebody had 20,000 SIM cards in a single apartment?"

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a week ago

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a week ago

US Secret Service Finds 300 Simboxes in New York - commsrisk.com/?p=52154 100,000 SIM cards were also seized.

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2 weeks ago

It's pretty easy to make this claim if you use the data from the national census. Perhaps a "Professor of Public Engagement in Science" should actually discuss the available data instead of just cherrypicking the statistics she prefers.

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2 weeks ago

I Wrote a Global KYC Standard That Regulators Will Review; Does That Seem Strange to You? - commsrisk.com/?p=51989 The i3Forum has approved and published a know-your-customer code of conduct. Will it receive the support of the regulators who attend GIRAF?

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2 weeks ago

"I actually came to Washington, D.C. to be a lobbyist, and, I’ll admit, to make a lot of money." FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty explained her route into 'public service' during a speech at the National Press Club on Sep 18, 2025. Least surprising revelation ever.

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2 weeks ago

T‑Mobile US Has Known Since 2005 That SIM Swap Fraudsters Use Social Engineering to Steal Employee Credentials - commsrisk.com/?p=52068 The MNO continued to fight victims of SIM swap crime in court despite 27,000 unauthorized SIM swaps between 2016 and February 2020.

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2 weeks ago

It's consistent to observe that all the FCC's Commissioners agree their bipartisan strategy for reducing scams is a success despite being a failure, and all are odious political apparatchiks who argue about the definition of free speech because none can be trusted to defend it.

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2 weeks ago

Shocking IMSI‑catcher Shopping Mall Surveillance Advert Returns to YouTube - commsrisk.com/?p=52044 In a world where everybody talks about using AI to stop crime, why is Google not vetting video adverts for equipment used by scammers?

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3 weeks ago

Why Countries Like the UK Need to Use ‘Is Roaming’ Checks to Reduce Scams - commsrisk.com/?p=52032

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3 weeks ago

Time to Slow Down - commsrisk.com/?p=51922 My contributions to Commsrisk will be reduced to three articles per week as the website pivots towards more automatically-generated charts representing data from around the world.

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3 weeks ago

$128mn Payout after Telco Cheats Taxpayers for 10 Years - commsrisk.com/?p=51364 There was also a 5-year prison sentence for Issa Asad, CEO of Q Link Wireless, a provider of comms services to customers in 31 US states.

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3 weeks ago

UK Telco Warns of ‘Significant Rise’ in Scam SMS - commsrisk.com/?p=51897 It is good that telcos are now publicly talking about scams. It would be better to independently monitor how effectively they block them.

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4 weeks ago

Brazil Reverses Policy by Abolishing the Mandatory 0303 Prefix for Telemarketing Calls - commsrisk.com/?p=51675 Consumer groups criticized the regulatory u-turn and said it would encourage more scam calls.

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4 weeks ago

Malaysian Regulator Shares Video of Raid That Seized SMS Blaster Gear Worth $24,000 - commsrisk.com/?p=51924 There are striking similarities between the methods used in this case and how fake base stations have previously been used in China and the Philippines.