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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

Police 3D Print Dead Man’s Finger to Unlock Phone

The ability to create a substitute finger shows why even biometric controls need to be supplemented by other lines of defense.

Taher Talib, Shaw Communications

Taher Talib is an expert in carrier services, fraud, analytics and business assurance who works as an advisor to Shaw Communications, the Canadian multiplay...

Cartesian Lands Analytics Deals Worth $2mn

The troubled vendor secured contracts to deliver cloud-based revenue analytics solutions to two customers in EMEA.

The 10 Hottest Topics in RAFM (Abridged)

This is the kind of list that people tend to argue about.

The 10 Hottest Topics in Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management

This talk for the PITA Fraud Forum draws on web stats for Commsrisk, social media data and polling by RAG.

Nasia Seria, MTN

Nasia Seria is the General Manager responsible for risk and compliance of MTN's Mobile Financial Services (MFS). In this role Nasia is responsible...

Michael Ruppel, Deutsche Telekom

Michael Ruppel works in the Technology & Innovation department of Deutsche Telekom AG. At present he is the program manager of the group's...

Michael Lazarou, Epic

Michael serves as the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Manager at Epic, formerly known as MTN Cyprus. He is also an active supporter of...

Dan Ret, Sagacity

Dan Ret is Business Development Director of Sagacity Solutions. He joined Sagacity in January 2012, and in his current role he has dual...

Alexander Eristavi, UK National Fraud Intelligence Bureau

Alexander Eristavi works for the UK's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which is a part of the City of London Police. In August 2018...

Katherine Butterworth, Rogers Communications

Katherine Butterworth is employed by Rogers Communications, where she is the Senior Manager in their Fraud Management function. Katherine has been with Rogers...

Vodafone Group Buys Riskonnect ERM Tool

A big telco group bought software that works anywhere in the whole wide world! (But did not reveal what it does.)

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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