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...high-profile cases suggest.

"Telecom fraud been around since someone first tapped a wire," says Jack Wraith, executive director of TUFF, the Telecoms UK Fraud Forum. "And no doubt it will continue. What is important is that we all use our resources together to combat it."

The main type of fraud in telecom is, according to TUFF figures, subscription-based. In simple terms, this means that end-users are misrepresenting themselves to gain fraudulent access to services.

"The challenge to the criminal is how they can transform telecom services into cash," says Wraith--and it seems that subscription fraud often offers the most direct route to the money.

"It's not glamorous," says Dean Smith vice president of fraud and security solutions at Azure Solutions, a revenue assurance specialist, "but it is anywhere between 40-60 per cent of fraud overall, both in volume and value terms. A lot...

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