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It was also meant to avoid escalation of fraud related issues which would\u00a0result\u00a0in the stigmatization of the top management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The workshop provided for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overview of GSMA activities on fraud and security management<\/li>\n<li>A presentation of a variety of fraud and abuse affecting the mobile sector<\/li>\n<li>Mobile operators and TCRA perspectives on fraud management priorities highlighting some of the successes and challenges<\/li>\n<li>Discussion of the joint desirable approach towards successful fraud and abuse prevention from a regulatory perspective<\/li>\n<li>An actionable way forward for improved fraud management in Tanzania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This industry workshop held on 19 October 2018 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dar es Salaam was attended by 33 participants including government officials from the Ministry of Communications, the regulator (TCRA), security agencies (National Police, Cybercrime Unit), representatives from virtually all mobile operators (Airtel, Benson Informatics, Halotel, Smart Telecom, Tigo, TTCL, Vodacom and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"algolia_discover_type":[2216],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","algolia_discover_type-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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