Risk, Fraud & Security
Random Foolishness
Can you predict what will happen tomorrow? Yes... but your prediction may be wrong. Can you improve the reliability of your predictions?...
Alltel Buys cVidya Fraud Solution
cVidya, the Israeli RA vendor, recently announced the sale of its fraud management solution to Alltel, a wireless brand of US telco Atlantic Tele-Network;...
Using Probes to Protect LECs in North America
The regulation of the communications industry in North America generates many idiosyncrasies for revenue assurance in that part of the world. One of...
Risk: More than a Little Bit More
Today I am going to tackle a subject that needs to be tackled by talkRA, and by everyone working in revenue assurance, fraud management...
New Traffic Pumping Study: $150M Annual Cost to US Wireless Providers
Connectiv Solutions, a US vendor of network efficiency products, has issued a new study into traffic pumping; you can obtain the report from here....
Putting a Cost to Cybercrime
When it comes to cybercrime, telcos find themselves not just being fired upon, but also carrying the crossfire. That leaves telcos with double...
One Fifth of UK PRS Traffic Alleged to be Fraudulent
UK mobile CSPs are losing GBP136M a year to Premium Rate Services (PRS) fraud, according to BillingScore, vendors of technology to identify Artificially Inflated...
The Swap that wasn’t…or was it?
We recently swapped our prepay billing system – for some reason, I prefer the term “prepay billing system” as opposed to Intelligent Network but...
What is Mobile Data Worth?
Recent revelations that Microsoft Windows 7 handsets were sending large amounts of superfluous data when synching with Yahoo Mail (see BBC News) has served...
Exercising Self-Control: To Speak Risk, First Learn Risk
I remember I did not enjoy my time as a trainee auditor. There was a lot of work to do. We endured...
In A Spin
Time and time again RA and Risk functions within companies try to yield fantastic results, returns and savings by looking for the next big...
Ghana Arrests Eight for Termination Fraud
It is good to see an old mate generating positive publicity about the fight against fraud. Nixon Wampamba can make a decent claim...
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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