Fraud management system and method for collecting and distributing fraudulent information to multiple network service providers

摘要

A fraud management system (100) and method (600, 700) are described that can collect fraudulent information (104) and distribute the collected fraudulent information (104) among network service providers (106). In particular, the fraud management system (100) includes a controller (102) capable of interfacing with fraud detection programs (software) deployed in participating networks to collect fraudulent information (104) and further capable of distributing the collected fraudulent information (104) to one or more network service providers (clients) (106) thus enabling each network service provider (106) to identify and block a fraudulent call (or fraudulent traffic)(110) using the distributed fraudulent information (104). The controller (102) can collect the fraudulent information (104) from one of the network service providers (106) and/or the controller (102) can generate the fraudulent information (104) itself. For instance, the fraud management system (100) can generate the fraudulent information (104) itself by deploying fraud detection programs throughout the network. <IMAGE>