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The Simple Solution to Voice Phishing: Stop Answering Your Phone
The comms sector can embrace the use of secure verifiable identities or it can embrace the death of phone numbers.
Former Subex Executive Runs for Governor of Colorado
John Brooks extolled the virtues of automating revenue and cost assurance within telcos. His manifesto proposes to do the same for government.
Verizon Turnaround? Not Likely
The US mobile operator is running out of assets to sell and staff to cut.
Commsrisk Top Ten for 2025
Crime and misery featured heavily among the most widely-read articles of last year. Commsrisk's future will place more emphasis on objective data with the hope it will positively influence policy.
The Unsung Heroes of 2025
Virtue must be its own reward if good is to prevail over evil. That truth lives in the hearts of these unsung heroes.
Are There Countries Where It Is Impossible to Report a Scam Message?
The UN and INTERPOL will host the next Global Fraud Summit in a country where inhabitants complain they cannot notify the police of scam messages.
Commsrisk Top Ten for November 2025
More people have read last month's top story than any other article this year.
Anti-fraud Vendor Names 5 “Trusted” Countries Linked to Hidden Telecoms Fraud
An American business with an international clientele cited various examples of crime that challenge cultural assumptions.
Europol’s New Paper on Caller ID Spoofing Is Better than Anything Else You Will Read on This Subject
The police can be impartial about the methods needed to tackle crime when businesses are letting the rest of society down.
US Law to Bully Foreign Nations into Adopting STIR/SHAKEN Progresses through Senate
Have you heard of the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act? If passed into law, America's Sheriffs will impose their version of law and order on your country.
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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