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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

10 RAFM Issues: Education

The second in a series to define and rank some key RAFM issues covers the seemingly intractable problem of training.

Faaiq Davids, MTN South Africa

Faaiq Davids works at MTN South Africa, where he is a Senior Manager responsible for their Fraud function. He joined MTN in July...

Timo Vainionpää, Owner of AurorA International Telecom

Timo is a veteran exec and entrepreneur in the telecoms sector. He is both the owner and the President of AurorA, providers of...

Matthew Reader, T-Mobile US

Matthew Reader works as a manager of revenue assurance at T-Mobile USA. He joined Sprint in 2002 and has held various positions in...

28% of Cyberattacks Involve Telco Insiders

Kaspersky Labs have published their Threat Intelligence Report for the Telecommunications Industry.

Million Dollar Miami Fraudster Pleads Guilty

The FBI discovered the criminal had over 80 cloned phones at his home, which he used to make calls to the Caribbean.

Jaco de Jager, ACFE South Africa

Jaco de Jager is the CEO of the South African chapter of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), having become the first person appointed...

Commsrisk Top Ten for August 2016

Which stories grabbed the attention of your colleagues? These were the ten most popular articles during August.

Adam Falus, T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telecom

Adam Falus is the Credit Risk & Fraud Management Senior Manager at T‑Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telecom. The deep cooperation between Slovak...

Douglas Jardine, Vodacom

Douglas heads up revenue assurance in Vodacom International operations. He is responsible for the RA programs in Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and the Democratic Republic...

Jim McEachern, ATIS

Jim McEachern is an expert in the governance of the SHAKEN anti-spoofing protocol and an advisor to the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).The...

The Dilbert of Risk and Assurance?

WeDo has published a comic strip featuring a revenue assurance manager dressed like Wonder Woman and a fraud manager who is a ninja.

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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