{"id":30280,"date":"2011-07-28T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=30280"},"modified":"2011-07-28T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:24:03","slug":"rica-and-tracking-down-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/30280-rica-and-tracking-down-scammers.html","title":{"rendered":"RICA and tracking down scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Regulation of Interception of Communication Act (RICA), a government law that makes it compulsory for everyone to register all new and existing cellphone numbers, kicked in recently which meant that many non-RICAed SIMs were cut off.<\/p>\n

It is not surprising that numerous holes have been found to bypass this new law, with media reports surfacing about foreign nationals and local users connecting to SA\u2019s cellphone networks.<\/p>\n

Despite the obvious shortcomings of RICA, Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company, believes that RICA is a step in the right direction to fight crime and fraud. \u201cWhile RICA will not protect people or companies totally against crime and fraud, it is at least a step in the right direction,\u201d said Riley.<\/p>\n

Riley explained that prepaid cellular phone SIM cards made it easy for criminals to dupe the public, without being caught, but that a well implemented RICA system can limit this online fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cUp to now, you could steal a product yourself, and advertise it in the local classifieds, or in on-line second hand websites \u2013 without there being any loop back to you,\u201d said Riley.\u00a0 This is changing with RICA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn future it will become hard to become truly \u2018untraceable\u2019. Many of my peers are worried about human rights and freedom, but I have seen the other side of how much damage has been done with people having untraceable telephone numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/a>

Christopher Riley<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPeople will become traceable \u2013 right down to the last metre \u2013 and RICA is the start,\u201d says Christopher Riley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,1916,2022,907],"class_list":["post-30280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-christopher-riley","tag-regulation-of-interception-of-communication-act","tag-rica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30282,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions\/30282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}