Our attention was drawn to an article published by Norfolk Police in the UK regarding another mobile phone fraud scam. An elderly man received three mobile phones in the post. He had the good sense to contact the network operator that had sent these and advise...
Nearly half of all robberies in San Francisco last year involved a mobile phone; in Washington, a record 42% of robberies saw mobile phones taken. In New York, theft of iPhones and iPads last year accounted for 14% of all crimes. According to the Telegraph, Police and...
We were interested to read that six UK telecoms companies have appeared in court this month to challenge Government rule changes over GSM Gateways which they claim were unlawful. The litigation has been rumbling on since 2009 when former GSM Gateway operator VIP Communications filed a...
July 1st 2013 marked the first day of a new regime of roaming charges across Europe. Reaction to this has been mixed and has varied from positive (EU Roaming rates slashed) to negative (EU Roaming rates slashed). Opinion varies from those that see this as a...
Continuing our series on different types of mobile fraud, Mark Yelland analyses the risks of call selling to mobile operators. Call selling is the practice of selling service to customers at below market rates but using another person’s system and equipment to deliver that service. The usual...
Continuing our occasional series on the different kinds of fraud that take place on mobile networks, Mark Yelland, an international expert on mobile fraud and revenue protection looks at System Access Fraud: Most PABX systems have a means for the maintainer to dial into the system...
Continuing our occasional series on the different kinds of fraud that take place on mobile networks, Mark Yelland, an international expert on mobile fraud and revenue protection looks at the risks associated with subscription fraud: Subscription fraud is usually described as using a service with no...
Imagine the mood of a mobile phone sales person on hearing that the customer in his store wishes to open nine new phone lines for his business. The commission alone should ensure a Happy Christmas! However, recently in Petersburg, US, this kind of...
The Daily Telegraph reported last week that John McAfee, the entrepreneur and founder of McAfee Anti-Virus, who is currently wanted on murder charges, posted a request last week on a message board regarding how long it would take authorities to triangulate a mobile phone signal...
As we have seen, social networking sites are particularly vulnerable to fraudsters because they are communities built on trust. The urge to post personal and often intimate details of your everyday social and working life makes these site rich pickings for identity theft. Fraudsters will...