- AT&T reported reducing iPhone fraud by more than 80%, against a problem of about $1B a year in the US market.
- Each order, upgrade and activation gets a fraud score and reason codes while the order is still open.
- The score feeds the fraud engine and rules you run today, so your decision flow and review process stay in place.
- Models run on-premises, air-gapped, private cloud or cloud.
The phone is gone before the fraud shows up
Fraudsters use fake or stolen identities to open lines and take financed or discounted phones, then pay little or nothing. By the time the first bill goes unpaid, the device has shipped and the loss is on your books.
Your rules catch the patterns you already know, but fraud rings test those rules, move to a new channel or device model, and come back at volume. Tightening the rules has a cost too: every good customer you hold at the counter is a sale you may lose.
How device fraud prevention works
Your fraud team builds models on your own order history and scores each device order before it ships.