LATRO Claims New Tech For Simbox Detection

By Eric Priezkalns 25 Mar 2015

Bypass fraud using simboxes has received a lot of coverage recently, so I was intrigued to learn that LATRO, fraud detection specialists, claim to possess a new technology that will identify simboxes as soon as they connect to the network. In an interview with Dan Baker for Black Swan, LATRO CEO Lex Wilkinson said the following:

… we developed a technology that allows us to flag what we call the Protocol Signatures of SIM box devices vs. the devices a normal mobile subscriber uses.
… the information we are processing and analyzing is based on signaling data that is not available in CDRs.

Inevitably the technical details were not shared, but I would like to learn more about how this technology works, and I suspect there are plenty of victims of simbox fraud who will feel the same way.

Eric Priezkalns

Eric is the Editor of Commsrisk. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

Eric is also the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group (RAG), a global association of professionals working in risk management and business assurance for communications providers.

Previously Eric was Director of Risk Management for Qatar Telecom and he has worked with Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky, Worldcom and other telcos. He was lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He is a qualified chartered accountant, with degrees in information systems, and in mathematics and philosophy.

1 Comment on "LATRO Claims New Tech For Simbox Detection"

render | 25 Mar 2015 at 1:41 pm |
I suppose that is the story, which is never ends: yet another new solution from telco, yet another new workaround from fraudsters, and circle strarts again.