
Catalin Bedea
Catalin Bedea is VP of Product Management at netnumber, speaking on telecom messaging fraud at the Mobile Ecosystem Forum's Leadership Forum Canada.
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Sep 3, 2026
The Challenges of Professionalized Fraud
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7:51Nicholas RossmanMODERATOR
So what are some of the most effective strategies that we're seeing right now in terms of working against messaging and voice fraud that makes them successful?

Catalin BedeaGUEST
So first of all, building on what Nima mentioned, I think the challenge here is really that we're shifting from a world that we knew how to, you know, fight fraud in, you know, SMS based on, you know, content inspection and looking into the messages and stuff like that.

Catalin BedeaGUEST
Now we're shifting into a more fragmented world and end-to-end encryption is the problem.

Catalin BedeaGUEST
We have end-to-end encryption on P2P RCS, we have end-to-end encryption on many of the OTT channels, so this is making it much more difficult to detect fraud in the same way that we've been used to.
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22:18Nicholas RossmanMODERATOR
So I'm not putting you on the spot, Katalin, but maybe, you know, what are those challenges? Like, why are we having such a hard time