Risk, Fraud & Security

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...

Revenue Assurance in 2009

Another year goes by, and we are all a year older. Are we a year wiser? Here is the review of what...

The Risks With Mobile Content

Look here for a very good article on the different kinds of risks that need to be managed with mobile content. It very...

Customer Transaction Monitoring for Financial Businesses

This is another in the irregular series of "it looks like revenue assurance, it smells like revenue assurance, it even tastes like revenue assurance,...

Fraud and Security Post 9-11

Danny Lieberman is a security expert with a broader range than telco revenue assurance, but is invariably worth a read for his insights on...

US$22m Fraud at AT&T and T-Mobile US

It has been revealed that slack controls over customer data allowed eight people to obtain US$22m worth of equipment from AT&T and T-Mobile US,...

Pedaling Profits

Recently I stumbled upon this story about Kenyans making a cheap mobile phone charger for their bicycles. What strikes me is the fact one...

Blocking As Assurance

It seems Russian communications providers have broadened the definition of RA - to include blocking VoIP.It is obvious Skype and IM erode prime revenues...

Text Tax is a Sneak Attack

Walk around Britain today, and you sometimes see old houses with recesses in the walls. They look like they should have windows in...

Rapid Growth at Neural

Neural Technologies, the specialist fraud vendors who now position themselves as suppliers of risk management, has been listed amongst the top 100 fastest growing...

Tax on SMS revenues to plug UK’s financial deficit?

Text messages have been implicated in many unusual things, including; notifying staff of work place redundancies, providing step-by-step instructions to doctors performing life saving...

Revenue Optimization for Greenfields

I was recently going through the recent posts, and one thing I've noticed is that we seem to be a bit partial in only...

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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