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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

London Thief Exploits Yet Another Flaw with SMS OTPs

A serial criminal is taking phones from gym lockers and using them to remove thousands of pounds from bank accounts.

Why Is the UK Government Delaying the Sale of a Telco Partly Owned by a Russian Oligarch?

Past government neglect is to blame for the slow pace of a review into the purchase of Truphone by German used car trader Hakan Koç.

14 Times Americans Were Told the Number of Robocalls Would Fall

The success of STIR/SHAKEN has lain just over the horizon for four years in a row.

US Records Worst Month for Robocalls Since Adoption of STIR/SHAKEN

The results on the graph would have been compared to the target if anybody had set a target.

Using Rich Call Data to Restore Confidence in the Origin of Calls

Pierce Gorman of Numeracle, and formerly of Sprint, explained how RCD will encourage people to pick up important calls again.

It Is Easy to See Why People Come to RAG Conferences If You Know Where to Look

Sometimes the answer to a question is staring you in the face.

UK Government Backs Down on Drahi’s BT Investment but New Security Attitude Is Clear

Billionaire Patrick Drahi now owns 18% of BT, but it is clear that national security laws would be used to block a takeover.

Police Like Gathering Phone Data; Why Is This News?

US police cut costs and worked around the need for court warrants by buying location data gathered by apps on 250mn phones. But there is no great outrage because we are complacent about privacy.

Commsrisk Top Ten for August 2022

An unexpected surge of traffic from the USA helped August to become the second most popular month in the history of Commsrisk.

New Auction for Advertising Spaces on Commsrisk

Fewer than 1 in 10 of Commsrisk readers come to the site via LinkedIn or Twitter. Can you afford to ignore the great majority of professionals who are not active on social media?

Academics Spread Misinformation about Misinformation on the Web

Cloudflare gets a lot of criticism but it is safer to trust their free speech policies than the slanted research of wannabe censors.

Bots Disguised as IoT Devices Make Fake TV Ad Traffic

Fraudsters spoof devices to disguise how they inflate the number of views for video adverts. This is an iteration of the broadening threat of phoney online users generating faux traffic.

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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