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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

Is Flash Calling a Fraud?

Businesses like Whatsapp are intentionally using the A-number of calls that are not connected as a free mechanism for passing data to apps on a user's phone.

Last Day of i3forum-RAG Wholesale Fraud Survey

We need joined-up thinking to solve problems that cross borders and cause harm to ordinary people everywhere. Joined-up solutions start with a common understanding of problems we face.

Vigilante Used Traffic-Pumping Fraud to Pay for Denial of Service Attacks on Robocall Scammers

US telecoms fraud can be so convoluted that just describing the crime gives you a headache.

Turning Towards Today’s Risk Priorities

There are so many Commsrisk articles about nuisance calling and Cold War 2 that each topic deserves a separate category.

Chief Target of New US Robocall Crackdown Is American Banned from Telemarketing in 2013

Roy Cox was never made to pay a USD1.1mn penalty for past violations but is now blamed for 3.5% of all US robocalls since 2018.

What Is the Cost of Rogers’ 15-Hour National Outage?

A leading Canadian telco failed emergency services, banks and retailers as well as phone users, but the cost of the backlash is likely to be far worse than just the revenues lost and compensation paid.

Survey Says Regulators Not Doing Enough to Stop Fraud

The new i3forum-RAG survey of international wholesale fraud showed widespread dissatisfaction with regulatory frameworks.

Welcome U-Turn Sees 43% Cut to Tanzania’s Mobile Money Tax

Other governments should also seek to learn from Tanzanian policies that backfired.

Calls with STIR/SHAKEN C-Attestation Almost 6 Times More Likely to Be Robocalls than Unsigned Calls

One billion bad calls were 'authenticated' during June by systems which were supposed to protect Americans from bad calls.

Mobileum Seeks More Takeovers

The California-headquartered suppliers of risk and security technology will also continue recruiting in India, which will be home to over two-thirds of their global headcount.

Half of All Australian Scams Begin with Voice Calls

Losses to scams increased by 84 percent in 2021 but there was also a 50 percent reduction in the number of phone scams reported.

Commsrisk Top Ten for June 2022

Which articles grabbed the attention of your peers? These were the ten most popular Commsrisk posts during June.
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