As digital services increasingly become part of everyday life, cyber fraudsters are adopting new techniques to siphon money from unsuspecting users. A new form of fraud involving USSD code-based call ...

USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) protocol that is used to send text messages. USSD is similar to Short Message Service (SMS). USSD uses ...

India’s cybercrime authorities have issued a fresh alert about a rising USSD call forwarding scam that is quietly leading to bank fraud and account takeovers. The warning has come from the National ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s electronic payment statistics have shown that, between January and June 2024, 252.06 million transactions, which amounted to N2.19tn, were carried out via Unstructured ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced plans to launch an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data code that will enable Nigerians to verify the authenticity of capital market operators ...

A security research team at the Ekoparty Security Conference has demonstrated a single line of USSD code that can be used to completely reset a Samsung S III handset and ‘kill’ the owners SIM card in ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) phone approval USSD code is *315#, which Nigerians can dial to check whether their mobile phones and other eligible devices are approved and verified for ...