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Insider commentary on the risks faced by comms providers and their customers since 2006.

Joined March 2010
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The Final Commsrisk Article: US Telcos Cannot Be Allowed to Dictate Global KYC - commsrisk.com/the-final-comm… I was thrown out of One Consortium, but that was inevitable given a plan I hatched in 2024. It is better to end my career with this KYC warning than by facilitating a sham.
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AI Needs RA More than RA Needs AI - commsrisk.com/ai-needs-ra-mo… SMS farms are being used to gain API access to the Claude LLM at one-tenth of the correct price. There has always been more to learn about revenue assurance than corporations care to learn.
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Disappointing Results Confirm Subex’s Decline - commsrisk.com/disappointing-… This Indian business was a pioneer of RAFM. CEO Nisha Dutt is failing to provide the firm with a new identity, purpose or sense of direction.
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YouTube SMS Blaster Ad Displays Scam Messages That Impersonate Telcos - commsrisk.com/youtube-sms-bl… Google's indifference to social media ads for scam equipment is disgraceful. A new ad shows an SMS blaster impersonating Globe and Smart, the two largest telcos in the Philippines.
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This is the gluten-free bread shelf at Sainsbury's. Every single product has a Nectar price: either give them your data or pay an outrageously inflated cost. No other mainstream supermarket behaves like this. @sainsburys, are you not ashamed to exploit customers like this?
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Chinese SMS Blaster Scammer Attacks Eurovision in Vienna - commsrisk.com/chinese-sms-bl… A 32 year old Chinese national was arrested by Austria's Cobra tactical police unit outside the Eurovision Song Contest. The scammer's 6 year old son was also in the car.
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Did a British SMS Honeypot Discover Election Fraud in the US Midterms? - commsrisk.com/did-a-british-… A spam message about 'cell signal coverage' linked to a poll harvesting data about supporters of two Republicans competing in the Texas Senate primary.
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Telco Insiders Arrested; Accused of Aiding $41mn Bank Frauds with 580 million Scam Texts and 180,000 Spoofed Calls - commsrisk.com/telco-insiders… Arrests by South Korean police include the CEO of an SMS messaging platform and a systems administrator at an MVNO.
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Elect Me to the One Consortium Council to Get Tough KYC Rules (Though I Expect to Lose) - commsrisk.com/elect-me-to-th… International harmonization of KYC must come through negotiation, not by one country seeking to dominate.
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Signal Failure: The State of UK Mobile in 2026 - commsrisk.com/signal-failure… In his first Commsrisk article for 9 years, international telecoms veteran Nixon Wampamba questions why Britain has slow and patchy mobile networks.
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Success and Failure in Scam Reduction: Comparing Data from Australia, India, Singapore, the UK and the USA - commsrisk.com/success-and-fa… This 15-minute video is a reworking of content presented at the Comms Council UK Fraud Summit.
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SIM Binding Followed by a 30% Reduction in Abusive WhatsApp Accounts - commsrisk.com/sim-binding-fo… Telcos will benefit if online services have to be authenticated repeatedly but some decision-makers will struggle to see the connections.
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How a Sailing Club Hacked Ireland’s SMS Sender ID Registry - commsrisk.com/how-a-sailing-… It is not just criminals who look for loopholes in anti-scam controls.
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Two Chinese Arrested for Operating an SMS Blaster around Bangkok - commsrisk.com/two-chinese-ar… Few details were provided but the crime fits a well-established pattern.
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Users Only Allowed Banking Apps on One Device; Transaction Limits for New App Users in Nigeria - commsrisk.com/users-only-all… The Central Bank of Nigeria has demanded new anti-crime controls on mobile banking.
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Repatriated Scammers Are a Security Risk, Says Kenyan Government - commsrisk.com/repatriated-sc… Around 400 Kenyans have been repatriated from scam compounds in Asia after being lured by fraudulent job adverts on social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.
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Three Arrested in Toronto after First SMS Blaster Detected in North America - commsrisk.com/three-arrested… Dafeng Lin, Junmin Shi and Weitong Hu have been charged with 44 offenses in total.
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Investigation Shows Telcos in Israel, UK and Jersey Enable Spying on Phones Worldwide - commsrisk.com/new-investigat… The privacy of phone users is under attack, as proven with SS7 and Diameter signaling data examined by The Citizen Lab.
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Wacky Call Increments Reveal Deeper Issues with Restoring Trust - commsrisk.com/wacky-call-inc… Complicated changes to wholesale prices are being communicated with minimal notice.
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Why Ukraine Is Building a Mobile Network Just to Fight the War - commsrisk.com/why-ukraine-is… Ukraine's big three mobile operators have been asked to help.
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