070 – Licence to Cheat: Ofcom Should Rethink UK Personal Number Fraud
To stop deception, the UK numbering plan needs fundamental change not offered by controls on termination rates.
To stop deception, the UK numbering plan needs fundamental change not offered by controls on termination rates.
Any business that automatically generates a phone call, even if it is designed to verify a customer, must be wary of PRS fraud.
The competition between fraudsters and fraud managers forces both to evolve. PBX fraud is a perfect example of how an old technique can mutate and thrive again.
UK mobile CSPs are losing GBP136M a year to Premium Rate Services (PRS) fraud, according to BillingScore, vendors of technology to identify Artificially Inflated Traffic…