TeleShield Service Introduces an Assessment Level for Telephony Fraud Detection

TeleShield service introduces a score and assessment level for telephony fraud detection

TMT ID services power many of the world’s leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and CPaaS organisations, delivering actionable insights that enhance and protect every stage of the customer experience.

Is telephony fraud affecting your bottom line, impacting your company from both a financial and customer satisfaction perspective? Are you seeing reduced profitability caused by International Premium Rate Number (IPRN) fraud schemes, interconnect bypass fraud, hijacking of Mobile Station Routing Numbers (MSRNs), or other disruptive elements? If you are experiencing these situations, TMT ID’s TeleShield service provides you with the ability to stop these cost and revenue-impacting schemes.

How can TMT ID help?

TMT ID has access to detailed global intelligence about numbers used for voice or SMS messaging. The TeleShield service identifies potential fraud indicators and enables customers to take preventive action against attempts by fraudsters to inflict damage using: International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF), Wangiri (one-ring) fraud, originating number/Calling Line Identity (CLI) spoofing, Origin Based Rating (OBR) fraud, Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT)/SMS pumping, as well as other disruptive elements such as flash calls. The TeleShield service consolidates data attributes from multiple sources and uses its analytic expertise to determine the propensity for a telephone number to be fraudulent — putting the power to take action on telephony fraud directly in our customers’ hands.

The large number of data attributes available can make it difficult to know when and what action to take. TeleShield has enhanced the usability of these attributes by assigning a score and an assessment level — high, medium, or low — to each number queried. These additional data points enable service providers to prioritise what action to take to protect their business, such as blocking, flagging, or allowing a call. As an example, if analysis of a telephone number’s attributes confirms that the number has not been made available to a service provider to assign to a subscriber, the assessment level would be “high”. The service provider can then put in place business rules that block such calls before they trigger a cost impact.