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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.

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Shahid Ishtiaq, Etisalat

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Krista Saarinen, Experienced Fraud Manager

Krista Saarinen is a long-serving fraud manager who has more than 25 years of experience. She is a well-known specialist within the anti-fraud...

Amyn Sarif, TELUS

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Nominations Open for Subex Excellence Awards

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Kostadin Taneski, A1 Telekom Austria

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10 Issues for Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management

I intend to do a different kind of survey, writing 10 separate articles about issues facing RAFM, then ranking the response.

Chris Poulton, Expert in Regulation and Customer Operations

Chris Poulton is a business advisor who has a deep knowledge of customer centricity and the role of regulation for telcos and utilities.Between 2014...

Stuart Waton, ex-Three

Stuart was formerly the Senior Commissions Manager at mobile communications provider Three UK. He gained considerable experience of telecoms revenue assurance through roles...

Laundering Case Dismissed Because ‘Bitcoin is not Money’

Arguments about the word 'money' should matter to comms companies that enable the transfer of Bitcoins.

Report from the PITA Fraud Forum

Good work is being done on small islands in the Pacific ocean. Let us encourage greater collaboration between RAFM practitioners everywhere.

Grant Merrill, CenturyLink

Grant Merrill is the Senior Director of Financial Assurance at CenturyLink, a global telecoms company that operates as a facilities-based provider of a wide...

Penelope Matloga, Liquid Telecom

Penelope Matloga works for South African telco Liquid Telecom, where she is a Specialist in their Revenue Assurance function. She is responsible for...

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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