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  • 24 Jun 2022 | Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?
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  • 21 Jun 2022 | Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks
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The Fraud Officers Who Certified Themselves

By Eric Priezkalns 11 Aug 2020 Education & Conferences

If you issue a qualification to yourself, then you are morally unfit to issue qualifications to anyone.


Is GRAPA Giving Loans to Unemployed RAFM Managers?

By Eric Priezkalns 22 Jul 2020 Education & Conferences

If you create lots of different websites for multiple front organizations you may fail to notice when one has been hacked.


RAG TV Exceeds 10,000 Views

By Eric Priezkalns 13 Jul 2020 Education & Conferences

The pandemic has been tragic, but has accelerated necessary change. We must not waste the unexpected gift of bringing our community together online.


How GRAPA Defeats Other Associations on Social Media

By Eric Priezkalns 24 Jun 2020 Education & Conferences

Other providers of education to RAFM practitioners should ask themselves why GRAPA is so much more popular than they are.


Where Are the Black Telecoms Risk Experts?

By Eric Priezkalns 15 Jun 2020 Education & Conferences

There will be no change in the racial mix of the ‘leaders’ of our global profession until black and white people recognize the need to change their approach to education.


GRAPA’s Return Is ‘Liked’ by the CFCA

By Eric Priezkalns 1 Jun 2020 Education & Conferences

The world’s most bogus RAFM association tweeted about coming back, and “the premier international association for fraud risk management” thought that was good news.


Judge Me by My Enemies, Not Just My Friends

By Eric Priezkalns 2 Mar 2020 Education & Conferences

Nobody likes criticism, but refusing to find fault leaves our profession hostage to duplicity and mediocrity.


RA President Pretends He Was Never RA President

By Eric Priezkalns 29 Jul 2019 Assurance & Audit

‘Papa’ Rob Mattison spent 10 years saying he was the President of GRAPA, a business that masqueraded as an association. Now he has deleted his Presidency from his LinkedIn profile.


Remembering the Bad Old Days of Revenue Assurance

By Eric Priezkalns 3 Jun 2019 Assurance & Audit

Some of the worst RAFM conference organizers have seemingly given up.


Would You Buy an RA Training Course from This Man?

By Eric Priezkalns 15 Dec 2017 Education & Conferences

Papa Rob Mattison makes a fool of himself by pretending to shoot a video in London, England, when he is obviously faking it.


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RAG RAFMCS Survey Results

Watch Eric Priezkalns give his summary of the largest ever survey of revenue assurance, fraud management and cybersecurity (RAFMCS) pros working for communications providers worldwide.

 

Recent Comments

  • Eric Priezkalns Eric Priezkalns 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    You don't need to apologize, Dennis. The only person who was pedantic about the word 'authentication' was me. But I have reason to be pedantic as there is confusion between how the word is used by a...
  • Dennis Dupont Dennis Dupont 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    Sorry if I was being pedantic about that one word. I have been in the business of reading and implementing specs, so I may get hung up on them. Either way I think we have converged onto the root of...

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