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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

Ukraine Police Raid Simbox Farms Spreading Russian Propaganda via 1.5 Million Fake Internet Accounts

About 300 GSM gateways and more than 100,000 SIM cards were seized in the operation.

Suspected Paris Bomb Was Actually an IMSI-Catcher

Police jumped to the wrong conclusion after noticing a suspicious device in the back seat of a car they stopped at a road check.

Commsrisk Top Ten for 2022

Three of the ten most popular articles of the year concerned the inconsistent and inadequate enforcement of laws prohibiting illegal robocalls.

The Commsrisk Review of 2022

Another year reaches its end. The communications industry persevered through a hot war, a cold war, an information war, and a lot of unwanted calls. But did anything really change?

Why Revenue Assurance Should Embrace Data Science

Resistance to treating RA as a branch of data science ignores the realities of who leads innovation in the field and why they do it.

More Enormous Fines Proposed for Robocallers Who Never Paid Their Previous Fines

Why propose a 'record' USD300mn penalty when nobody collected a USD2.7mn penalty already handed out for the same crime?

Using Mobile Money to Issue and Repay Loans

Ugandan fintech business Numida says that 99 percent of their loans are made using mobile money.

The Unsung Heroes of 2022

There is never enough time to give everyone all the thanks they deserve. Here are five people who deserve more thanks than they received.

Will Germany Reject STIR/SHAKEN?

US supporters of a one-size-fits-all approach to authenticating voice calls face the twin obstacles of German culture and trials of a rival technology by Deutsche Telekom.

Swipe Left to Sue Robocallers: Is This App a Scam?

A lawyer who says he intends to sue telephone spammers for a billion dollars has an unusual way of marketing his services.

Saudi Twitter Spy Given Over 3 Years in Prison

Bader Al-Asaker, confidante of the ruler of Saudi Arabia, recruited US-Lebanese Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo to feed information about Saudi dissidents.

Digicel Wins $10mn Damages from UPM in Simbox Fraud Trial

The jury decided that the US telco had committed conventional simbox fraud and abused a roaming tariff only offered to Haitians.

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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