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Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

Expert Says 15% of IRSF Sent to B-Numbers Too Long or Too Short to Be Valid

National dial plans define how many digits belong in a valid number. Guy Howie says fraudsters and telcos ignore those rules.

Mobile Money Risk Special for Global TV Network

CGTN interviewed Commsrisk authors Joseph Nderitu and Rob Chapman about mobile money fraud and what telcos are doing to prevent and detect it.

Commsrisk Top Ten for October 2018

Did you miss a big story? These were the most popular Commsrisk articles during October.

Mobileum’s Acquisition of Evolved Intelligence Signals Shift in Security Spending

UK signaling security firm Evolved Intelligence has been purchased by US mobile analytics business Mobileum.

Do Telcos Have a Human Rights Problem?

Some research you have never heard of, but which somebody is paying for, illustrates why you should not believe everything you read.

Blockchain Proposed as Solution to Roaming Fraud

A distributed ledger would potentially eliminate the delays in record keeping that are exploited by fraudsters. But could a blockchain ledger be updated for all roaming calls in real time?

Oculeus

Oculeus is a leading provider of innovative OSS/BSS solutions for telecommunications service providers, network operators and other providers of voice and SMS services. Oculeus’...

LATRO

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Can Solid Bring ‘Balance’ to the Web?

Tim Berners-Lee intends to guide 'the next stage of the web' but his plan to encourage users to create networked personal data pods suffers from an excess of ambition.

What Utilities Can Learn from Telcos About Assurance

Professionals who switched industries will lead the first utilities-oriented meeting of the Risk & Assurance Group.

Even Small Pacific Islands Suffer Wangiri

Residents of Guam have been warned about an apparent flood of wangiri calls.

GSMA Unveils Regulatory Index for Mobile Money

The new index will measure the regulatory environment in each country by assessing it against six categories including consumer protection and know your customer requirements.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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