IRSF Fraud Expert Colin Yates Joins Symmetry Solutions
Symmetry CEO Bill Leahy has expanded his company’s portfolio by adding the PRISM fraud intelligence service that Yates supplies to over 60 telcos globally.
Instant Takeaways from the i3forum-RAG Wholesale Fraud Survey
Many carriers said they were following best practices for fraud mitigation but IRSF and wangiri are still big problems.
Free IRSF Fraud Intelligence for Telcos Helping Ukraine
Colin Yates, the leading expert on international revenue share fraud, will give data about 50,000 fraud targets in Ukraine to any telco that responded to the crisis by cutting the cost of calls to Ukraine.
What Is New with IRSF Fraud?
Analysis from the PRISM database of International Premium Rate Numbers shows revenue share fraud occurs across a far wider range of destinations than before.
Only 1 in 5 Mobile Operators Believe GSMA/3GPP Security Guidelines Cover All Signaling Threats
The Cellusys-Kaleido signaling security survey contains many other statistics that will trouble risk managers and ordinary phone users.
Academics Recommend Mix of Machine Learning and Premium Rate Number Monitoring to Detect IRSF
Researchers Merve Sahin and Aurélien Francillon claimed their method detected 98% of IRSF calls with 0.28% false positives.
The Changing Risk Profile for Revenue Share Numbers
The PRISM database of revenue share numbers keeps needing to be refined to allow for changes in the methods used by IRSF and wangiri fraudsters.
Choosing Quality over Least Cost Routing Provides Better Long Term Value
How can smaller international carriers compete in a high volume, low margin business? The answer is to deliver quality and prevent fraud.
RAG TV: Colin Yates on IRSF and Europol
Why are so few telco fraudsters punished? Is it sufficient to block the top ten IRSF destinations? Does RA suffer a lack of innovation? These and other questions were covered in this week’s episode.
Court Victory for Alleged Telco Fraudster Will Discourage Future Police Action
Two Maltese operators suffered losses of USD32,300 after Vodafone Greece SIMs were used to make calls to unallocated UK numbers.