Simulating SIMBox frauds for detection investigation

Anne Josiane Kouam (1, 2) , Aline Carneiro Viana (1) , Alain Tchana (3)

1 TRiBE - inTeRnet BEyond the usual
2 IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
3 LIG - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

SIMBox fraud is one of the most prevalent scams in cellular networks that cause a significant monetary loss to mobile operators. It consists of diverting international voice traffic from regulated routes and rerouting it as local calls in the destination country. SIMBox fraud mitigation is challenging as it requires knowledge from both regular and fraudulent parties. This paper identifies and addresses such challenges through the realistic design of a simulator, i.e., FraudSIM, enabling the generation of datasets enriched with regular and multiple fraudulent strategies-induced behaviors.

Mots clés: Cellular networks; CDRs; International bypass fraud

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Anne Josiane Kouam, Aline Carneiro Viana, Alain Tchana. Simulating SIMBox frauds for detection investigation. CoNEXT Student Workshop 2022 - The 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, ACM, Dec 2022, Roma, Italy. ⟨10.1145/3565477.3569161⟩. ⟨hal-03838853⟩