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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

CFCA and FIINA to Run Joint Lisbon Fraud Event Ahead of WeDo WUG

Both conferences will be at the same venue in Lisbon. They will run consecutively for the week of 9th to 13th May.

Orange and Digicel Adopt XINTEC Fraudstrike IRSF Service

The small but innovative vendor has launched a cloud-based service that counters International Revenue Share Fraud.

More Public Rows Over Ghana National RA Audits

Ghana's comms minister was in the firing line after a think tank said it has documents revealing a rigged process awarded the contract for Ghana's national interconnect clearing house.

Alex Cassettari, TalkTalk

Alex is the Head of Cost Control Transformation at TalkTalk. He will speak at our London meeting on 20th July about the differences...

VimpelCom Settles Bribery Claims for $795mn

VimpelCom's CEO admitted the firm had done wrong, and promised that controls had been strengthened, after Uzbek subsidiary Unitel pleaded guilty to charges of bribing officials.

Stacy Graham, CFCA and ANPI

Stacy is the Director of Risk Operations and Recon at ANPI, a US IP network operator that focuses on providing communication services to business...

John Bangs, Assurance Professional

John is an experienced telecoms professional. In the past he served as the Head of Operational Insight & Compliance at Sky, the largest...

Andre Katz, BT

Andre is the Director of Enterprise Risk Management at BT. He will be joining our summer conference, where he will contribute to our...

Bill Shock Represents 14% of Big Business Mobile Costs

Wandera surveyed 1,000 IT managers and found surprising amounts were spent on roaming and data breaches.

Shoaib Qureshi, Ooredoo Qatar

Shoaib is a Director at Ooredoo, Qatar's incumbent multiplay operator, with responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), strategic planning and performance management. He...

Jacinthe Galpin, Risktory

Jacinthe is the creator of Risktory, a first of its kind podcast dedicated to telling the story of risk through the lens of history....

UK Reg Sees Vodafone Bill Errors, Takes No Action

The UK regulator continues to make a mockery of billing accuracy rules by concluding it will do nothing to protect Vodafone customers, because they can complain for themselves.

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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