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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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Paul Cox, Neural Technologies

Paul Cox is employed by Neural Technologies in the role of their Business Development Manager for the EMEA region. He is responsible for...

New COSO ERM Framework Out for Comment

You should read this revised enterprise risk management framework even if it is not very good.

Jacob Howell, Subex

Jacob Howell is the Head of Business Solutions and Consulting for the Americas division within Subex.Prior to joining Subex, Jacob was the Global Director...

Nealle Page, Ocado

Nealle Page is responsible for payments and fraud at Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocer. Product managing all payments and fraud systems across...

John Brooks, Globetom

John Brooks is Chief Executive Officer of Globetom's American business. Globetom was founded in 2002 and has since enjoyed rapid international growth in...

Review of the TMF Fraud Survey

This survey generated similar results to others, but needs more respondents to improve its credibility.

John Haraburda, iconectiv

John Haraburda is the Principal Solutions Engineer Director at iconectiv, a role which makes him responsible for managing their critical business operations and spearheading...

Arnd Baranowski, Oculeus

Arnd Baranowski is the founder and CEO of Oculeus, a business that supplies innovative business support systems and anti-fraud solutions. After studying aerospace technology,...

Watch Hackers Using SS7 to Hijack Whatsapp

End-to-end encryption in messaging tools like Whatsapp can be rendered irrelevant by duplicating the victim's account.

Duncan Beanland, Vodafone

Duncan is Senior Manager, Fraud Management at Vodafone, where he runs their IDD fraud prevention team.Our November London meeting will begin with a major...

Amit Jain, Mobileum

Amit Jain is the Director of Product Management at Mobileum. He has many years of product management and product marketing experience especially in...

Simboxing Ghanaian Real Estate Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

The judge described the sentence as "lenient".

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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