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"Go back to the data." "The answer's in the data." "Data is the key".

Maybe.

Until it goes wrong.

FCRO Subsection: 

This week, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has signed three Bills, bring them into law. Bucking the global trend to try to incorporate multiple aspects of financial crime law into a single piece of legislation, the new Acts are the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022. But the word of the day is "irony."

Don't say that: 

unwanted when you mean "unjustified"

Do say this: 

unwarranted when you mean, er, unwanted.

Watching American motor racing always smacks of a trick when, not long before the end, a safety car comes out and everyone bunches up. Why not just to five lap sprint races because at the end of the day, that's all the racing that counts. So when one hears a TV commentator at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix say that we need a safety car to spice things up, there's a horrible sinking feeling, and a sour taste after the safety-car led debacle in the Abu Dhabi GP 2021.

CoNet Section: 
Name of Crypto-asset (e.g. bitcoin, ripple) demanded by extortionist: 

bitcoin

GlobalKYC -Suspicious Wallet Number: 

1MW4maqRuqi62YiRNMaBiHT65WJJMEAvQw

"LAST & FINAL WARNING NOTICE" screams the headline with the target's email address added for good effect.

And it goes downhill from there.

Fake from address: Bar.Petermantle@Un.org
Reply address: Bar.Petermantle@yandex.com

FCRO Subsection: 

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has issued a warning that customers of WeLab Bank are the target of a phishing scam. WeLab prides itself on being Hong Kong's "only home grown virtual bank." But it's more than a bank so the scam has potentially much wider implications.

BIScom Subsection: 

Those with long memories will remember the well-worn name of Andre Coker. It's been used in a variety of spam-scams but, at least insofar as it's reached us, been unused for some time. But it's back and Andre is a woman now.

The subject of "digital identity" suffers from one big problem: what does it mean?

In researching this article, I concluded that it is so imprecise as to be meaningless except as an umbrella term covering a wide range of loosely connected topics. Perhaps, one day, these topics will converge but that day isn't now nor is it any time soon.

BIScom Subsection: 

The US government, acting through the US Department of the Treasury and the Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a second set of sanctions against foreign cryptocurrency exchange, this time as part of a larger action against the biggest and longest established Dark Web Market, which is also subject to sanctions. That's all very interesting but buried in the story is something fascinating: a one-stop, global, hawala service.

Publication: 

Much store is placed on "mixers," which are also known as "blenders" and "tumblers." Let's strip away the myth.

Open Letter to ( CEO ): 
Mr Lutz Schuler
Open Letter to ( Company ): 
O2, part of Virgin-02
Summary: 

At what point does the customer give up and say "this has to be a con?"

For me, it was the point when 02 sent an SMS saying that benefits that were advertised and confirmed by a shop assistant were denied.

But that's the spoiler. How we got there is a story of either willingly stringing customers along or of utter ineptitude.

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