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Kim Baldonado of NBC 4 LA reports on political text messaging fraud. She warns that scammers pose as political candidates or campaigns and use this ruse to get money and personal information from voters. In an interview, iconectiv’s Senior Vice President, George Cray, explains how consumers can protect themselves – listing red flags to watch out for. For example, Cray warns that text messages sent from an unknown 10-digit number asking for personal information are likely from fraudsters. …

In a telecom world filled with villains, CFCA members are unveiling their identities as fraud fighting superheroes dedicated to stopping malicious actors from stealing consumers’ money and identities. These vigilant guardians have been protecting the communications infrastructure for a long time – sharing insights and best practices. iconectiv, a provider of telecom solutions, is proud to have its own legion of trusted communications superheroes that have been an integral part of this…

Communications service providers (CSPs) have woken up to the fact they have been leaving revenue on the table by not charging termination rates based on the origin of a call. For years, CSPs had charged flat rate termination fees regardless of the call’s originating country, the service provider and the type of connection used. The last decade’s increased pressure on voice and data revenues has sent CSPs searching for new sources of revenue and this previously flat rate business has now been…

When fraudsters win, everyone loses: mobile operators, consumers, and legitimate businesses. Unfortunately, for over a decade, fraudsters have been winning, inundating Americans with an average of 60 billion illegal robocalls each year. That’s conditioned people to let calls from unfamiliar/unidentified numbers drop into voicemail 76% of the time. But even with that precaution, they’ll still lose an estimated $40 billion to fraudulent robocalls in 2022. Meanwhile, service providers including…

Exactly how do you explain your telecom fraud fighter job to someone at a cocktail party? That’s a tough task!  The trouble is it may take time to explain the context – describe how telecom services are delivered and paid for, then show how criminals steal money by corrupting the process. A faster path is to use an analogy and say, “My job is be a kind of detective of crimes committed against telecom providers.” That analogy works, but iconectiv has come up with an even better one.  …

The way in which consumers and businesses communicate and how societies operate is a key reason why companies are anticipated to spend US $2.8 trillion on digital transformation globally by 2025. In the shadows of communication service providers (CSPs) globally, a squadron of advanced and intelligent superheroes are diligently working to keep the integrity of the communications infrastructure and the relevancy of the communication channels intact. These superheroes are fighting to…

Argentina’s leading database administrator for number portability – Administradora de la Base de Datos (ABD) – is a strategic association made up of iconectiv and Telmark, a partnership agreement that is expected to last until 2026. Telephone numbers are considered a part of a person's identity, acting almost like a bar code that works as a multi-operator identifier worldwide. So, having a good quality numbering system, updated with the progress of technological demand, and compatible…