OK, picture this: you’re lying in bed and you hear a window smash downstairs. Do you: For me, the answer is always A. Maybe it is the self-reliance o…
Call me a saddo, but one of the nice things about the gap around Christmas and New Year is that I get some quiet time. In years gone by (many many ye…
Our cutting edge nuisance call detection algorithms are currently shielding swathes of the UK and USA from scammers. We’ve previously said that we wo…
What is a mobile number? Contrary to popular belief, it is not just +447x, as you have to omit personal numbers (long story,) which are +4470 and rad…
One of my real frustrations with this industry is the propensity to talk about issues rather than act. Talk sells, acting costs. I remember back when…
In the last 30 days, we’ve blocked 3.4m “nuisance” calls on the Simwood network. That’s 3.4m opportunities for people to be harassed, robbed, or aggr…
It’s been a while since we updated our website guidance to the general public on unwanted calls, and with some changes in the industry, it is worthwh…
Calling nuisance calls fraud is both dangerous and sneaky. TL;DR – if you want to address nuisance calls (and by extension scrotitude via telephone c…
As some of you might know, our work on nuisance call prevention is a project I’m leading personally. We have such an awesome technology team nowadays…
Some of the privacy-minded readers of this blog might sense some irony in my use of Google’s codification of the corporate ethics it espoused until a…
Back in the day, when we began researching VoIP Fraud, we found the data told its own story. We began collecting data but it left breadcrumbs which,…
TL;DR some of your calls will be blocked in 7 days On this blog last week we explained the additional actions we were taking to combat nuisance calls…