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Telecoms Revenue $2.255 Trillion (USD) $2,255,000,000,000
© 2016 David Morrow $38,000,000,000 Equivalent to GDP of Jordan Ghana
© 2016 David Morrow Losses for mobile operators and Customers Income for Fraudsters Artificial Inflation of Traffic (AIT) Massive calling to content services on high-tariff international ranges Fraudulent Service Acquisition Subscription fraud PBX hacking Account takeover Social Engineering Wangiri SMS Spam
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End Users Aggregator Termination & Content Content
© 2016 David Morrow VAT €39m VAT €298m Missing Traders VAT rate 20% If VAT = €39m + €298m =€337m then net amount = €337m /20 x 100 = €1,685,000,000 Issued share capital £2
© 2016 David Morrow Tuvalu population 10, phone lines GDP $38m It would take 45 years to pay for this traffic The ‘content’ was porn
$70m © David Morrow 2016
Callphonex $500k © David Morrow 2016
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CFCA 2015 Survey
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76% of B-numbers are sequential 81% of B-numbers in Mobile range – 070 numbers Of 671 numbers only 22 belong to mainstream Mobile Operators … Special Assume average loss £15k x 671 = £10,000,000
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Revenue Share Fraud Missing A no. Repeat A no. Sequential B no. Same duration Night hours Consecutive calls International Origin Stopped by Annexe E UK OperatorDealer Criminal receives proceeds Terrorist receives proceeds Domestic Origin Dealer
© 2016 David Morrow Proceeds of Crime Network Carrier 2 Carrier 1 Number provider Content provider Pays £1.60 Pays £1.35 Pays £0.50 Pays £1.15 Call costs £2.00 Keeps £0.40 Keeps £0.25 Keeps £0.65 Keeps £0.20
© 2016 David Morrow Revenue Share Fraud Missing A no. Repeat A no. Sequential B no. Same duration Night hours Consecutive calls International Origin Domestic Origin Proceeds seized under POCA UK Operator Beneficiaries arrested Proceeds seized under POCA Beneficiaries arrested
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