FAS is perhaps the most prevalent and is under the control of international carriers. So what is FAS? FAS occurs when a call is falsely answered by a downstream carrier so they can start billing well in advance of the real answer. Even worse for customers is a phenomenon, known as call hijacking, where the call is routed to an automated voice system designed to keep them on the phone while billing continues; not only do they get a huge bill, but the call does not even reach the dialed customer.

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) is one of the most menacing frauds plaguing the telecom industry. IRSF is caused by the artificial inflation of traffic or traffic pumping to the premium rate numbers in the world. Datanomers’ International Revenue Share Fraud tool is a big data analytical solution that detects International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) and remediates it in near real time which will avert huge financial losses for enterprise customers, mobile operators, service providers and wholesale carriers.