Fraud prevention services
Here to protect your revenue stream, by preventing the most disruptive and significant types of call and SMS fraud, as well as restoring customer trust in your services to help minimise churn.
Pre-emptive protection for call and SMS fraud
GSMA fraud prevention services provide a comprehensive first line of defence against call and SMS fraud. Helping you maintain a reliable network environment with pre-emptive protection against International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF), SMS Artificial Inflation of Traffic (AIT) and Origin-Based Rating Fraud (OBRF). Don’t know what these types of fraud are? You can find out more below.
Why are these services important for your business?
They are effective, because they aren’t just a defence mechanism. Critically, they protect your business from attacks before they take place.
Protect your revenue
Safeguard your business against fraudsters who are impacting your revenue streams, taking your profits and undermining the accuracy of your billing.
Achieve Value
Easy setup, with high detection rates for quick improvements from day one in stopping fraudulent activity before it reaches your network.
Protect your customers
Fight back against fraud and proactively stop only bad-actor activity, ensuring legitimate calls remain unaffected.
Real-time data
Information is updated every 20 seconds, allowing you to make prompt decisions, providing invaluable insight into fraudulent activity.
What are IRSF, SMS AIT and OBRF?
Find out more about some of the most damaging types of fraud globally, that have been rising steadily over the past decade.
IRSF
International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) is where attackers artificially inflate traffic to international premium-rate numbers (IPRNs) and take the revenue created when these calls are terminated. Usually, they hijack the routes, so they can direct them to go via IPRN providers – and profit from the premium rates of these lines.
It is one of the most persistent frauds plaguing the telecom industry, causing losses running into millions of dollars annually.
SMS AIT (SMS Artificial Inflation of Traffic)
Here, bots are used to flood SMS channels with fake messages, so fraudsters and their accomplices within the delivery chain reap a share of the profits when these messages are delivered – enterprises continue to pay for them as they’re unaware these messages are fraudulent. Businesses are left blindsided by the financial repercussions.
With the rise in Application to Person (A2P) costs over the past few years, (which has more than doubled for certain destinations), the revenue share of artificial traffic is larger and therefore increasingly more attractive to fraudsters.
OBRF (Origin-Based Rating Fraud)
Origin-Based Rating Fraud (OBRF) involves fraudsters manipulating the origin of calls or messages to take advantage of differential pricing. It often depends on falsifying the origination point, so fraudsters can benefit from lower termination rates or evade detection by fraud prevention systems.
This not only results in revenue losses but also undermines the trust in the accuracy of network billing.
Learn about our current services
Prevent IRSF and SMS AIT
Step up your fraud protection with the first fraud solution that prevents IRSF (International Revenue Share Fraud) and SMS AIT from happening – with real-time fraud intelligence for phone numbers.
Stop scam calls before they happen
Validate international calls in real time with immediate analysis of outgoing and incoming calls, using our secure and encrypted service that’s easily integrated via an API or SIP.