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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

Former BT CFO Loses $675K Bonus After Failing to Spot Fraud

A very rich former exec who worked at BT for over 20 years will have slightly less money to spend during his retirement.

Change the Range: Experts Agree that UK 070 Numbers Cause Fraud and Confusion

The UK regulator was told to change the 070 number range by a variety of parties, including BT, security academics and RAG.

Subex Annual Sales Down 9 Percent

The Indian vendor also restructured itself during the year, separating its RAFM and analytics businesses into separate entities.

Commsrisk Top Ten for April 2018

Which industry stories grabbed the attention of your peers? Here is the rundown of the most popular Commrisk articles during April.

BluGem

BluGem have been providing independent test solutions and managed services to telecommunication companies for risk assurance, regulatory compliance and fraud detection since 2005.We are...

RAG Events Venture Into New Territories

Safaricom, Sprint and Batelco have agreed to host telco risk and assurance conferences in Kenya, USA and Bahrain respectively.

New Leakage Catalog Combined with Free Modeling Software

Two projects came together, linking the most complete catalog of assurance risks with the best free tool for modeling them.

Free Web RAFM Training Course Begins Beta Trial

RAG Learning is offering a free demo course on interconnect assurance in order to test its cloud-based system.

RAG Overload: The Conference That Changed Everything

Commsrisk will spend this week elaborating on the services and tools launched at the Risk & Assurance Group's biggest event yet.

5 Debt Collection Challenges

WeDo's white paper discusses ways to make the process of collecting payment more efficient and effective.

Fight Between ICANN and GDPR Reveals Flaws on Both Sides

A philosophical clash between the US and EU offers increased privacy for some at the cost of greater risk for most of us.

Do Not Call Registers: A Gift for Fraudsters?

Academics found their honeypot received a string of calls from a spammer who had obviously targeted numbers on the UK's do not call (DNC) register.

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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