SMS Firewall for handling SMS fraud control for efficient control on spam, spoof, flood and fake traffic delivery.

Comprehensive filtering with advanced anti-fraud algorithms.

Fraud protection for home network (on-net) as well as foreign network (off-net) – supporting network (SS7/SIGTRAN).

Complete control of configurable traffic streams

Message filtering on global or per user basis

Highly scalable mobile operator growth, supporting virtually limitless capacity and configurations

Detailed reports and statistics data for complete visibility of sources, traffic trends, unnatural traffic peaks etc.

• Message Type – binary, WAP notification,
• Identification of common call back, dial back, click back and info seeking patterns
• Check on PID and DCS on particular account
• UDH check – OTA, VMN, WAP, Concatenation
• Exclusion list
• Priority check – decrease the level for suspicious SMSs
• Database update

SPAM Methodologies

Faking

• Foreign System uses Identity of legitimate SMSC ( MT-Faking)
• Signaling overload
• MNO can’t collect terminating charges

Spoofing

• SMS with faked OA of legitimate

Subscriber from roaming VLR

• Subscriber Wrongfully billed
• Unwanted content

Flooding

• Massive SMS to target Nodes/base
• Signaling Overload
• Unwanted content

Phishing, Content

• Seek information from subscriber
• Security
• Unwanted Content
• Chain messages