Vodacom cracking down on fraudsters

[Daniel Puchert]

Vodacom nails scammers

Vodacom recently warned of scammers posing as official Vodacom Rewards representatives to phish sensitive information from its customers, and the mobile network operator is cracking down on the fraudsters it identified on its network.

A MyBroadband reader informed us of their experience dealing with one of these scammers. One of the highlights from their conversation was that the caller claimed to be Vodacom's Chief Marketing Officer.

 

[PCWARITM]

The mobile network operator has now deleted the numbers from its network and blacklisted the fraudsters’ IMEIs to prevent them from being used to target more customers.

Not what I was expecting when I read the word nailed.
Seems more like...

 

[Randux]

So, no arrests?

 

[PCWARITM]

So, no arrests?

Ja, I was disappointed too. To be fair these are probably proxies but someone had to purchase and RICA those numbers... and if they were illegally RICAd then penalise the entity who didn't do due dilligence.

 

[Unreal]

Oh they nailed them alright!!!