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Meet the Professor

This video features Santhosh Laxmana, who describes himself as an Adjunct Professor at the Aegis School of Business. But how does somebody become...

High Demand for TMF RA Practitioner’s Accreditation

Geoff Ibbett ranks as one of the most knowledgeable and experienced people working in the field of revenue assurance. When the TM Forum...

Carrying Coals to Newcastle

It has been a while since I last poked fun at Papa Rob Mattison, the self-appointed Grand Wizard of Revenue Assurance. In general...

Strength of an Argument

As part of the literature review for the RA research dissertation, I contrasted the definition, objectives and approach to RA, mainly using the work...

Putting the Ass into Revenue Assurance

Do you know the phrase "so bad it's good"? This advert from Papa Rob is so bad it transcends good and ends up...

More Mattison Madness and Mirth

Papa Rob Mattison, self-proclaimed President of the Revenue Assurance World, is up to his tricks again (but you did not need me to tell...

Benchmarking

Mark Graham Brown wrote a succinct little business savvy book called Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It. 60 Ways to Get Real Results...

Why Mattison is a Maggot: Wikipedia Spam Part 2

Wikipedia is not an advertising billboard.

The use of ‘forensic’ in context of revenue assurance

I have come across the use of the term forensic in GRAPA literature. I was unsure of its meaning and assumed it made reference...

GRAPA: Decision Time

Decision time is here. GRAPA has thrown down the gauntlet and put its standards and certification program to a vote. There are...

GRAPA: A Sucker Born Every Minute?

"There's a sucker born every minute" - Phineas T. BarnumOkay, those of you familiar with my previous blogs know what I think of Papa...

GRAPA Grinding to a Halt?

I check out the postings on the so-called Global Revenue Assurance Professional's Association (GRAPA) now and then. It pains me that Papa Rob...

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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