New Proximus Payment Flow Sees 90% Reduction in Advertising
Effective 13th of May, the carrier Proximus Belgium introduced new requirements for its Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) payment flow. The Proximus official statement (released end of March 2022), stated that the old ‘click flow’ was “..a frequent source of end-customer complaints
MCP Welcomes Potential Benefits of Premium Rate Regulatory responsibility transferring from PSA to OFCOM
LONDON - 26/02/2022 - MCP welcomes the announcement that UK Mobile Billing Regulator, the Phone-Paid Services Authority (PSA), is to commence the process of handing back the day-to-day regulation of the market to Ofcom. The expected transfer date is late
App Malware Reads Notifications Blood Pressure Tracker App
MCP MOBILE MALWARE UPDATE As a leading mobile compliance and fraud specialist company, MCP Insight continually tests and validates potential issues coming from websites or malicious applications. Our objective in this article is to reflect on a recent discovery of a malicious
Advertising monitoring identifies ‘sick’ attempts to capitalise on Ukraine War
London 17/03/2022 – Leading advertising fraud monitoring provider, MCP Insight, has revealed that in the past weeks its advertising monitoring has picked up the emergence of shameless attempts to capitalise on the publics’ empathy for the plight of the citizens
MCP Insight Launches Scanner 3.0 – 24th February, 2022
MCP Insight, which specialises in anti-fraud and compliance systems, has made significant upgrades to its market intelligence tool, MCP Scanner (now version 3.0). This will be available to clients from 28th February, 2022. Scanner has underpinned MCP’s expansion to 30 countries, supporting
UK – Is Your Business 15th Code Ready?
It’s said the best poker players are entrepreneurs. They excel in understanding that the most important insights are not in the grand gestures, but in the subtle tells that give away the real intent. So, I’m sure that many Telemedia
DCB – Mobile monetisation and fraud impact.
MEF - MCP Insight Have a look at the interview that James Williams from MEF did with our CTO Brian Pettit and our COO Toby Padgham on how the mobile monetisation market is working and how fraud impacts the market. If you
DCB Fraud Highlights and Lowlights of 2021
Payment Security 360° - Fraud Highlights and Lowlights of 2021. Our CTO Brian Pettit talks about Fraud Highlights and Lowlights of 2021 so far during MEF Payment Security 360° round table. If you want to know more about our anti-fraud solution MCP
DCB Fraud APKs Sleeping Longer
MCP’s fraud investigations team has noticed app malware activation patterns changing over the last 3 years. MCP identifies suspicious apps promoted to users via advertising seen in its Scanner monitoring tool. These apps are downloaded onto mobile devices to replicate
Red Letter Day in Saudi for MCP Fraud Team!!
A record day in Saudi Arabia yesterday – MCP’s fraud investigations team were kept busy tracking a total of 14 fraud attacks, affecting 14 different services. The spate of payment fraud was triggered from one malicious APK on the Mobily