The solution combines XConnect’s award-winning number information solutions with the GSMA’s IRSF Prevention database to restore trust in the A2P messaging ecosystem
London, UK, 27 February 2025 – XConnect, a Somos Company, the provider of world-class numbering intelligence solutions, has launched its AITCheck™ solution which leverages GSMA data under licence, to protect the A2P ecosystem against artificially inflated traffic (AIT) fraud. AITCheck provides enterprises, mobile operators and CPaaS providers with real-time numbering intelligence to defend revenue streams against significant financial losses from bot attacks on A2P services.
AITCheck is a part of the XConnect RiskALERT™ product suite and provides insight into whether a number is valid, ported and allocated to indicate signs of AIT fraud. The solution combines XConnect’s award-winning Number Information solutions with the GSMA’s IRSF Prevention database to reduce fraudulent OTP requests, mitigate AIT-based losses and enhance routing optimisation and alerting for high-risk destinations.
“AIT fraud is a critical challenge plaguing the telecoms industry. It is not only damaging revenue streams for A2P players, but causing wider damage to trust in traditional communications channels,” said Fenton Bard, VP Global Sales at XConnect. “As a neutral provider of numbering information services, XConnect’s mission is to help the industry restore trust in telecoms through collaborative industry solutions. AITCheck is just one of the ways we’re executing on this, helping the A2P ecosystem to secure messaging traffic against rising fraud instances.”
AITCheck enables enterprises, operators and CPaaS providers to mitigate A2P fraud losses and gain more load balanced messaging traffic by applying strong fraud filtering and blocking. They benefit from XConnect’s 24x7x365 monitoring and support as well as access to the GSMA IRSF Prevention database, updated every 20 seconds, for real time insights into numbers being used for AIT fraud in SMS traffic.
The launch of XConnect’s AITCheck solution follows its recent release of IRSFCheck™ in collaboration with the GSMA to help prevent International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF). The IRSFCheck database is updated over 250 times every single day, providing an over 90% detection rate on confirmed fraud cases. XConnect makes on average 1.2million updates daily to its Number Information data.
About XConnect
XConnect, a wholly owned subsidiary of Somos Inc, consolidates, maintains and delivers trusted telephone number intelligence to world leading telecommunication service providers.
It processes information from hundreds of different global datasets and ensures that customers solve routing, validation, and fraud challenges in real time.
XConnect’s Number Information Services are used for voice and messaging routing, fraud protection and to identify and validate insights. They also support the deployment and evolution of next-generation communications, such as VoLTE and RCS.
Its service is accessed through its global distributed hybrid cloud platform using simple, secure, scalable real-time protocols and APIs.
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