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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

Nigeria Cuts MTN Fine to $1.7bn

The fine for failing to disconnect unregistered SIMs is a third of that originally threatened by the Nigerian government.

Israeli Firm Says They Can Use SS7 to Bug Any GSM Phone

The CEO of Ability Inc says their Unlimited Interception System can track the location, calls and messages of phones everywhere.

Alex Taverner, Cybersecurity Consultant

Alex has over twenty years’ experience, working across the UK, Australia and Southeast Asia as a security expert and CIO. He is a frequent...

Summer Conference: 7th & 8th July 2016

The big RAG summer conference will see our typically strong line-up of UK experts joined by professionals who work in Africa, the Middle East, and around Europe

Martin Laesch, Neural Technologies

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Jim Bolzenius, WeDo

Jim Bolzenius works for WeDo Technologies as their Senior Director for Business Development. He has established a reputation as an expert in the...

Dion Price, Trustonic CEO

Dion Price is the Chief Executive Officer of Trustonic, a world leader in mobile device security. Trustonic has offices in seven countries and counts...

Pedro Duque, WeDo

Pedro Duque works for WeDo Technologies as their Business Development Director, focusing on the MEA region. Pedro has extensive experience of telecommunications, both...

Assaf Amrani, Amdocs

Assaf Amrani works for Amdocs in the role of Solution Sales Lead. He is responsible for sales of the Amdocs RevenueGuard financial analytics...

Padraig Stapleton, Mobileum

Padraig Stapleton is Chief of Engineering at Mobileum. He is an experienced leader with a track record of developing innovative solutions leveraging ML/AI,...

Asem Abughazaleh, LATRO Services

Asem Abughazaleh is the Product & Regional Business Development Manager for LATRO Services and their business partners, Acacia Innovations Technology (AIT). In this...

Paul Florack, TNS

Paul Florack is Vice President of Product Management within the wholesale telecom business of Transaction Network Services (TNS). Paul is responsible for the...

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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