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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

The Million-Pound British Alternative to the Billion-Dollar STIR/SHAKEN Program

Prof. Feng Hao of Warwick University has a bottom-up method for checking CLIs that could be much cheaper than the US approach.

MTN Nigeria Subsidiary Demands Banks Return $54mn of ‘Wrong’ Mobile Money Transactions

Usoro Usoro, CEO of MoMo Payment Service Bank, submitted a court affidavit about 700,000 improper transfers to 18 different banks.

Last Week to Respond to i3forum-RAG Survey on International Wholesale Fraud

It takes just 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire but all submissions must be made by the end of July 6.

RA Propaganda in Nigeria Shows Folly of Get-Rich-Quick Mentality

The 217mn inhabitants of the world's seventh-largest country are told that telcos need revenue assurance to be imposed from outside.

RAG Goes to Sydney

The Risk & Assurance Group (RAG) will hold its AsiaPac conference in downtown Sydney on October 19 and 20.

Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?

The pandemic affected how people read Commsrisk, but not in the ways you might expect.

The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error

A customer was lured into making an expensive international call but her error was made hundreds of times worse by her telco incorrectly recording the call's duration.

Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam

Symbio Group did not check the origin of hundreds of thousands of spam calls because they lacked the tools to do so.

Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks

The US government has allocated less than half of the USD5.3bn required to reimburse telcos for scrapping Huawei and ZTE gear.

UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts

But they also want to weaken rules that currently require politicians be held to the same standard as marketeers.

Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism

The Head of Communications at SAS Institute sees no problem with a wild generalization about Africans and crime.

What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?

The government of China has every reason to disrupt US ambitions by copying and improving upon US plans for verifying CLIs globally.
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