In this exclusive MEF TV interview at MWC25, Catalin Badea, Vice President of Product Development at netnumber, discusses the launch of a new Fraud Prevention Registry.

Knowledge is power. And this is never more true than in the fight againt crime and malpractice. Without information, how can you take action against the ‘enemy’?

The mobile messaging community knows this well – and phone numbers are the obvious place to start. Self-evidently, every phisher and spammer needs a phone number to perpetrate their frauds. So once a suspect number has been identified, it makes sense to alert all stakeholders immediately.  However, at present, this data-sharing chain is very limited. There’s no agreed and safe method for passing the information around quickly and without friction.

Last month, netnumber decided to act. As a provider of phone number intelligence data, netnumer is well-placed to address the issue. Its response was to create the Fraud Prevention Registry (FPR), which it developed in partnership with cyber threat intelligence firm WMC Global. The FPR tracks and aggregates phone numbers linked to phishing and other fraudulent activities. It then lets participants share information in real time. The solution has just been launched in the US.

In this exclusive MEF TV interview Catalin Badea talks in more detail about the initiative. He addresses questions such as:

• How do anti-fraud stakeholders share information now?
• What is wrong with the current set-up?
• How does FPR address the challenges of data sharing?
• How can interested parties join?
• What is the FPR UX?
• Where is FPR available and what are the plans for 2025?

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