What is Bypass Fraud?
Bypass fraud is the most damaging and costly type of fraud that particularly affects countries where the costs of terminating international calls is much higher than a national call. Also known as ‘landing fraud’ or ‘grey routing’, this fraud is carried out through manipulating call records to be recognized as local calls. This fraud type exploits immobile to mobile gateway equipment (SIM boxes) to hijack inbound international calls while transferring them through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the mobile network.