Revenue Share Fraud | Fraud Management

Revenue Share Fraud

Develop a protective barrier to unwanted premium-rate termination calls

Stop The Abuse of International Premium Rate Numbers

International Revenue Sharing Fraud (IRSF) is the most persistent type of fraud within the telecom industry. Fraudsters often utilize illegal resources to gain access to an operator’s network in order to bring traffic to phone numbers obtained from an International Premium Rate Number provider.

This is the most challenging fraud to eliminate due to the complexity of the mobile network system and the involvement of multiple operators, usually its perpetuated by organized groups using illegal connections to bring a large volume of calls into high cost 'revenue share' service numbers, taking advantage on the roaming capabilities of SIM cards

Mobileum's Solution To Fight Revenue Share Fraud

Mobileum's Revenue Share fraud solution is an already pre-configured Fraud Management Application, which allows you to audit and control all traffic CDRs generated at the network switches combined with the use of near real-time exchange of records on both voice and data, providing the detailed data required to detect complex and elusive fraud patterns quickly, allowing to reduce fraud detection time and losses typically by 90% or more.

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Integrated Hotlists For Enhanced Detection

Yates Fraud Consulting, in partnership with Mobileum makes possible for RAID to hold a database with over 90,000 IRS test numbers.
Used as a list along with GSMA High Risk Range List, these numbers are effective at identifying potential RSF incidents before they start. The list covers virtually all destinations and it's automatically updated every 4 weeks to keep the database current.
Revenue Share Fraud is a lot more difficult to detect as the numbers in RSF usually are not part of the national numbering plans, this increases the difficulty of identifying the called numbers as premium rate services and monitoring hotlists.

Designed To Deliver Immediate Results

Revenue Share Fraud (RSF) causes significant revenue loss to telco businesses.
CSPs need to be a step ahead against these new-age attacks which are getting more sophisticated day by day.
Mobileum has designed a pro-active RSF solution utilizing Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to help you safeguard your revenue and resources against these frauds, by predicting and automatically adapting to the new fraud trends.

Machine Learning and Real-Time Blocking

At Mobileum we believe that the best approach against telecom fraud is the hybrid one: combining AI/ML models and rules. Rules can be very effective in mitigating fraud risk, and telecom fraud analysts are comfortable with this approach because they can utilize human intelligence and set common-sense parameters for the telecom business. However, not having the right rule in place can result in false positives, false negatives or even a fraudulent attack getting below the radar. Unlike rules, machine-learning models can account for changing fraudulent behaviors as they evolve over time. 
 
By leveraging our security and fraud management products – plus a good measure of expertise – Mobileum gives customers a way to manage threats in real-time; providing an added layer of protection, even in the most secure environments.

RAID risk management software is easy to use and highly configurable

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RAID for Fraud Management is Powered by Mobileum's Active Intelligence Big Data Analytics Platform

Case Management
Drill down on data and alerts with ad-hoc analysis to find the root cause of fraud and make better decisions faster.
Fully configurable
Use easy-to-apply configurations, workflows, and dashboards to enable simple and transparent mirroring of your required business processes. Automations and migrations let you execute this in days instead of months
Machine Learning
React to and stop known and unknown fraud patterns in a repeatable and auditable way by combining an extensive rules library with machine learning.
All-In-One Software
Manage the telecom fraud management lifecycle autonomously, from data loading to mitigation actions, with Active Intelligence's complete suite of tools for fraud analysts.
Link Analysis
Quickly uncover fraudulent activities by highlighting key individuals, connections and patterns in a uniquely visual way. Gain a deeper understanding of data within a different entity and relationship types, as well as attributes that can help uncover hidden fraud patterns.
Big Data Analytics
Adopt stream data integration as part of your data management strategies for real-time integration and analytics. Address the problem of matching continuously income events to evolving fraud patterns with Active Intelligence's complex event processing (CEP). Accelerate fraud detection and react faster to emerging threats with real-time data stream analysis.

Bring your own ML Models (BYOM)

The evolution of sophisticated fraudulent techniques has increased the challenges of mitigating risk issues. CSPs are now actively employing data scientists, new tools, and advanced analytical models to quickly adapt to new methods to provide proactive risk coverage. These data scientists do not want to be solely dependent on vendors’ ML models and rather want to explore new ML models designed and developed in their own ecosystem.

Mobileum embraces this requirement and has now built a new openML engine based on microservice architecture, offering pluggable ML models with extensive support to all ML frameworks. This will enable the CSPs data scientists to plug and play their own developed machine learning models based on any external library or ML frameworks. Thus, offering Telecom organizations to be future proof, as they continue to develop new models to tackle unknown risk challenges using different tools and ML approaches.

Stop The Monetization Of IoT Devices for IRSF

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) is attractive to criminals because of the inherently low risk of the attack. It can be performed at a distance and the received money comes from re-directing the inter-carrier billing for expensive telecom traffic.
Since these frauds can be executed against the internet of things (IoT), the sheer number of devices that can be possibly involved has to be considered. When originated from IoT-critical infrastructures, and is consequently blocked as fraud, the IoT-enabled deployments would go silent.
Therefore, organizations that are using telecoms in operations should improve their security and fraud prevention posture to ensure the continuity of services, RAID allows CSPs to secure the new complex environments of IoT.

The New Combo Punch in Telco PBX & IRSF

PBX/IP PBX hacking and IRSF have become the new and preferred fraud combination used by fraudsters. Mobile operators upload lists of 'hot numbers' to block known fraudsters, nevertheless, the only way to fight attack combinations like this is with real-time defense using machine learning solutions to process vast data lakes of network and customer data.

RAID RSF protects the network in real-time with predictive analytics and machine learning, the network is protected from new vulnerabilities, protecting networks from fraud which can no longer rely on using rules/thresholds, when fraudsters are using AI to commit fraud and change their behavior in real-time.

How KT Is Leveraging RAID's AI For Telecom Fraud Detection

KT Corporation is Korea’s largest telecommunications service provider. The company is leading the era of innovations in the world’s most connected country.
 
KT leads the 4th industrial revolution with high-speed wired/wireless network and innovative ICT technology. After installing 20 million fixed lines in just 12 years, KT was the first telecom provider to introduce a 5G broad-scale trial service in 2018.

Future-Proof Your Fraud Management Strategy By Adopting Machine Learning

Rule Based Approach
An extensive rules library provides immediate fraud awareness and increased accuracy
  • Optimize rules according to your needs
  • Greater accuracy and lower error rate
  • Immediate results
AI/Machine Learning
AI and Machine learning algorithms leverage data analysis processes to detect deviations and unknown fraud patterns
  • Rapid prediction and processing analysis
  • Past customer behaviors evaluation
  • Unlimited traffic analysis
Act
Our voice, data and SMS firewalls are fully integrated with our anti-fraud system
  • Real-time blocking
  • Fraud & Security contextual analysis
  • Wide range of fraud type protection

Mobileum Risk Management Software Portfolio

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Choose How You Want Your Subscription App Deployed

Adopt the RAID platform and chose the deployment option that best fits your business needs, budget, and resources.
If your company still doesn’t have a full public cloud policy due to security and compliance issues, Mobileum provides an alternative in private and hybrid cloud models to deploy RAID with its prebuilt risk management modules or apps.

Try the cloud environment! Get access to RAID.Cloud for fraud management. Just subscribe to request a trial, load your data, and start monitoring alarms though one of our apps using the ready to go cloud-based server environment.

Mobileum Consulting Services

All telcos can benefit from a proactive risk management strategy when rolling out a new infrastructure. This means defining key risks, weighing their probability and impact on business drivers and developing your thinking on actions to take. Mobileum can support you in this. Our consultancy experts can undertake risk assessments that go beyond financial and regulatory risk to consider the wider environment in which you deploy new services. Additionally, our consultancy experts can help you put in place effective monitoring and control tools that give you earlier warnings, and enable you to respond quickly and effectively.
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