Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies their caller ID to resemble a number familiar to you. Some of these can be local numbers, government numbers or a company with whom you associate. Smishing is a SMS messaging scam where you are asked to provide sensitive information. Common smishing scams include account confirmation, urgent message on banking information and customer support impersonations.

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A company's investment into fixed assets, like servers, computers, and other communications assets, costs a significant amount of money. To maximize a company's return on investment, it’s important to operate and manage your communications structure in an efficient manner.

Robocalls harm consumers every day. They also harm consumer confidence in voice calls, which hampers the ability of companies to reach customers on the phone. With the rise in unwanted robocalls, 71% of consumers said they stopped answering their phone completely. In 2021, a missing hiker, lost in the mountains of Colorado, ignored repeated calls from rescuers because the calls came from an unrecognized number. While the hiker ultimately found safety, he could have been rescued earlier if he…

To avoid consumer frustration of waiting on hold for a long time, many retailers, government agencies and other organizations provide people with the option of leaving a callback number instead of staying on hold. The catch is that callbacks also enable fraudsters, who leave International Premium Rate Numbers (IPRNs), to take advantage of a retailers’ customer-first approach.

The Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN) framework helps mitigate illegal robocalls and helps consumers once again trust the number displayed on their caller ID. The catch is that legitimate calls from outside the U.S. are at risk of being caught in SHAKEN’s net.

With PortData Validate organizations such as financial institutions, healthcare providers, insurance companies and identity aggregators can be authorized to access number porting data for fraud mitigation. This helps companies in their efforts to guard against account takeover or assess risk before confirming a transaction.

Communications play a critical role in keeping people connecting, businesses running and commerce flowing. The fact that consumers are less likely to answer their phones is not a new problem, and now the rules are changing on how calls are being delivered through the network with the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN.

People simply do not answer the telephone anymore unless they unequivocally know who is calling. That is hurting legitimate businesses that rely on voice calls to reach their customers. The industry continues to advance the objective to restore consumer faith and confidence in answering our phones. Central to achieving that objective is the ability to verify that the information of the calling party has been authenticated.

5G is an enabler of the digital economy that involves augmenting existing network components with new technology and adding in many more service-ready locations. The benefits of using a common data management infrastructure accelerates 5G rollouts because common attributes agreed to by the industry help minimize the complexities and ensure interoperability.

There are 42M toll-free numbers available today and that continues to grow – especially with the introduction of the new 833 numbers. If managing toll-free numbers was easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It’s extraordinarily complicated and growing more so every day. iconectiv TruReach Toll-Free 8MS is a fully supported, cloud-based platform that integrates into existing customer service operations and ensures the efficient management of toll-free numbers.

In a type of robocall scam known as “wangiri” or one-ring, fraudsters call but hang up after the first ring. When consumers and businesses call back, they don’t realize that it’s a premium telephone number and they are charged a high fee. According to CFCA’s 2019 Fraud Loss Survey, one-ring “wangiri” fraud accounts for more than $1.82B in annual losses.