Fraud Types
Artificially inflating call volumes to a rural or high-cost destination so the terminating provider can collect inflated access charges.
A local exchange carrier in a high-access-rate area partners with a service that attracts inbound minutes — conference bridges, chat lines, free voicemail — and shares the resulting access revenue.
The FCC has repeatedly tightened access stimulation rules, shifting financial responsibility onto the carriers benefiting from the arrangement.
Long-duration traffic concentrated on a handful of rural NPA-NXX ranges is a classic pumping signature and can materially distort your termination costs.
Fraud in which criminals drive traffic to expensive international premium numbers they control and take a share of the termination revenue.
The mean length of answered calls, used alongside ASR to distinguish genuine conversations from automated or fraudulent traffic.
The per-call record capturing calling and called numbers, timestamps, duration, route, disposition, and the customer responsible.
SipShield scores live SIP traffic with patented AI so the controls behind this term run automatically — and leave the audit trail regulators expect.