Smishing

Operation SIMCARTEL: Inside the Network Behind 49 Million Fake Accounts

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Europol has announced a major crackdown on a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) operation that ran a large-scale SIM farm, providing tools for a wide range of criminal activities, from phishing scams to investment fraud. The operation, called Operation SIMCARTEL, involved 26 coordinated raids, resulting in seven arrests and the seizure of 1,200 SIM box devices containing […]

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Smishing Takes Central Stage In the Top 5 List of Common Fraud Scams

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Recent financial crime reports have stated that phishing scams conducted via texts otherwise know as smishing is now on the rise. This is ranked amongst purchase scams, where payments are made for products that never arrive, social engineering, impersonation and account take over (ATO). Smishing found its way into the Feedzai’s financial crime report top

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