Podcast: Mobile World Congress Special Feature – First Orion leads in the fight against phone scamming providing detection capabilities for carriers and enterprise.

After years of prank calls, scamming, and fraud First Orion wants to get people to trust their phone again.  Listen in as Gavin Macomber, who heads up marketing and business development for First Orion, describes their product technology to Don Witt of the Channel Daily News, a TR publication.  They monitor 200 million calls a day and 6 billion a month. In 2017scam calls amounted to 3% of all calls.  This year it has grown to a staggering 29%. It is projected that next year 50% of calls will be scam calls which eats up the band width and is a major overhead problem for carriers. They are getting more and more sophisticated. Neighborhood spoofing is one of the trends where they use a number that looks like it is from your neighborhood. So, of course, you answer it and then you realize it is a scammer. First Orion works with carriers domestically and internationally to help protect consumers. They have created applications that help the carrier and enterprise defend against the scammers as well as help company’s engagement with customers via the phone. First Orion is a leader in network enterprise solutions, call identification, and call management software, focusing on data-driven call transparency across the calling experience. They help their partners increase consumer satisfaction, reduce risk associated with fraud and compliance, and yield more profitable calling solutions. Data and mobile network integration is their difference. They have the largest pool of data sources from telecom operators, honey pots, FCC, FTC, line attributes, mobile apps and 3rd party data sources. When they say they know who's calling, they mean it! For more information, go to: https://firstorion.com/