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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

T‑Mobile US Has Known Since 2005 That SIM Swap Fraudsters Use Social Engineering to Steal Employee Credentials

The MNO continued to fight victims of SIM swap crime in court despite 27,000 unauthorized SIM swaps between 2016 and February 2020.

Shocking IMSI‑catcher Shopping Mall Surveillance Advert Returns to YouTube

In a world where everybody talks about using AI to stop crime, why is Google not vetting video adverts for equipment used by scammers?

Time to Slow Down

My contributions to Commsrisk will be reduced to three articles per week as the website pivots towards more automatically-generated charts representing data from around the world.

$128mn Payout after Telco Cheats Taxpayers for 10 Years

There was also a 5-year prison sentence for Issa Asad, CEO of Q Link Wireless, a provider of comms services to customers in 31 US states.

Switzerland and South Korea Investigate Suspected Fake Base Station Frauds

The Swiss NCSC believes a fake base station is being used for a typical SMS blaster scam while South Korea's government believes a base station was used to intercept 2FA SMS messages meant for the victims of a recent fraud.

UK Telco Warns of ‘Significant Rise’ in Scam SMS

It is good that telcos are now publicly talking about scams. It would be better to independently monitor how effectively they block them.

Brazil Reverses Policy by Abolishing the Mandatory 0303 Prefix for Telemarketing Calls

Consumer groups criticized the regulatory u-turn and said it would encourage more scam calls.

Malaysian Regulator Shares Video of Raid That Seized SMS Blaster Gear Worth $24,000

There are striking similarities between the methods used in this case and how fake base stations have previously been used in China and the Philippines.

Congressman Wants Trump to Authorize US Corporate Pirate Raids on ‘Scam Farms’ in Foreign Countries

There are a lot of crazy people in the USA. Some of them are running the USA.

Commsrisk Top Ten for August 2025

The most popular Commsrisk articles of last month included lots of statistics and lots of photographs of SMS blasters.

French Government Switches to Secure National Instant Messaging Platform

A circular dated July 25 wants French public servants to make more use of Tchap from September 1.

Belgium Tightens Controls on SIM Swaps Following Orange Privacy Breach

Hackers obtained data about 850,000 customers of Orange Belgium.

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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