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to evaluate all pre-call attempts and immediately block traffic that is identified as fraudulent .

The company highlights that its system allows an unlimited number of scenarios to be analysed for instances of fraud , which includes parameters for time , frequency , call value , destination and origin . By performing fraud evaluation and blocking in near real-time before the start of a call with automated processes , the Oculeus Anti-Fraud System eliminates or significantly reduces potential revenue losses caused by fraudulent telecommunication traffic .

“ Our application of anomaly detection combined with automated processes is extremely fast and rather unique for telecoms fraud prevention practices ,” said Arnd Baranowski , CEO of Oculeus .

Baranowski also explained that Oculeus is planning to launch a new version of its Oculeus Anti-Fraud System that will specifically focus on near real-time and real-time PBX hacking protection . The new version will allow telecommunications and managed service providers to host the system and provide their enterprise customers with communication fraud protection services .

We asked Franck Ravier further questions about how the Anti-Fraud System has benefited SFR .

What sort of communication fraud is SFR suffering from ?

Fraud from corporate businesses is the main type of communication fraud we deal with . We have some customers , which are small corporate companies , who are generally suffering from attacks over weekends .

They receive traffic on their switch , so it ’ s a sort of hacking incident of their switch in order to generate traffic to several international destinations .

But , of course , it was not the company that generated the traffic , but the fraud or attack . So this is the biggest part of the fraud that we have to contend with .

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