Abstract

This paper examines the problem of managing fraud in emerging converged networks and presents work in progress on implementing a rules based fraud detection system for deployment in a testbed environment. This is done by examining the state of the art in telecoms fraud management and adapting this to emerging IP-based networks and services. Features of this fraud detection implementation include the use of flexible data formats and spreadsheet/workbookbased rules specification with the capability to apply arbitrarily complex rules.