Skyward SMS Antifraud

Real-Time Fraud Protection for Your Direct Routes

Shield your routes from fraudulent traffic and your business from penalties. Turn blocked spam and AIT into revenue

Fraudulent SMS traffic results in direct financial losses – from severe fines by MNOs and regulators to permanent route blockings – while damaging sender reputation. This erosion of trust harms the entire SMS ecosystem, pushing messaging businesses to alternative channels

Skyward SMS Antifraud (SSA) is a comprehensive real-time protection solution that analyzes every message without impacting delivery latency. It detects and blocks various fraud types to ensure traffic integrity, while blocked fraud attempts can be converted into a new revenue stream.

Core Fraud Types SSA detects

Phishing and scams

Messages containing malicious links, spoofed sender IDs, or social engineering attempts to obtain sensitive subscriber information. These messages require blocking to comply with MNO and regulator requirements, preventing loss of routes and financial penalties

Prohibited Gambling

Messages promoting betting or casinos in regions where such advertising is banned. This traffic requires accurate filtering to ensure compliance, avoid regulatory penalties, and protect operator reputation.

Artificial Inflated Traffic (AIT)

Artificially generated messages that mimic real user activity (such as OTP requests) to inflate traffic volume. This activity sabotages swap agreements, drains financial margins, reduces conversion rates, and damages partner relationships.

Prohibited P2P Traffic

Person-to-person messages routed through A2P channels in violation of inter-operator contracts. This traffic violates core MNO agreements separating P2P and A2P streams and risks suspension of direct route access.

How SSA Works

Skyward SMS Antifraud (SSA) operates as a real-time cloud service that integrates seamlessly with your SMS switch via HTTP. It analyzes message content, metadata, and traffic patterns using machine learning and multi-stage verification to instantly classify messages and calculate their fraud probability scores. SSA enables automatic blocking of fraudulent traffic based on customizable risk thresholds for each traffic stream, whether segmented by country, customer or other attributes

For comprehensive protection, the solution combines two specialized detection engines: SDS for message content scanning and ATD for statistical flow analysis, which detects traffic volume and pattern anomalies such as AIT

Spam Detection System (SDS)

Identifies malicious or restricted content through deep semantic and contextual analysis, data validation, and spam signature detection. It can be configured per stream to block specific traffic types (e.g., gambling), ensuring compliance and traffic purity

Artificial Traffic Detector (ATD)

Dynamically separates traffic into distinct batches and analyzes each in real time. By building a statistical profile from a sample message batch, it detects anomalies and activates precise filtering to neutralize AIT campaigns at early stages

Challenges SSA Solves

Route protection

Maintains direct MNO connections by ensuring traffic integrity and blocking fraudulent messages to prevent violations of operator agreements

Financial Safeguard

Prevents revenue loss by avoiding partner penalties, customer attrition, and regulatory fines through comprehensive fraud detection

Operational Efficiency

Eliminates human errors by automating fraud filtering decisions and reduces NOC workload by minimizing manual whitelist maintenance and routine handling of fraud complaints

Compliance Assurance

Provides the controls necessary to meet key industry expectations, including supporting GDPR compliance and upholding GSMA best practices for traffic quality and sender reputation

SSA Key Benefits

Continuous Adaptation

Benefit from constantly updated algorithms that counter new fraud threats and a solution fully tailored to your specific requirements

Precise Fraud Detection

Identify and block up to 95-98% of fraudulent messages through continuous learning from aggregated traffic data and adaptation to new fraud patterns

Seamless integration

Connect to any SMS switch via a standardized HTTPS API, minimizing setup time and technical overhead

Real-Time Prevention

Analyze and block fraudulent SMS in under 1 second, protecting your routes without impacting message delivery time

Safe for Legitimate Traffic

An exceptionally low false-positive rate (<0.01%) ensures your legitimate messages are never disrupted

High Scalability

Reliably handle peak loads of up to 1000 MPS and scale system capacity on demand

Monetize Fraud. Maximize Revenue.

SSA transforms fraud prevention from a cost into a profit center:

Stops revenue loss by blocking fraudulent traffic before it triggers any fines or penalties
Converts blocked fraud into billable traffic, following standard industry charging practices
Monetizes Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT), a high-volume fraud type that typically goes undetected by traditional filters
Delivers measurable ROI, turning fraud control into a profit center with 2-3 times monthly net revenue over operating costs