Bolt Bulletin

VoIP wholesale trade is sure a low margin and a insecure market. Once in a while you come across corporations created as a general rule for taking over data about the official holders of the organization. Clients from notorious offshore countries like Cyprus, Panama, Belize might be VoIP market players.

The residence of such partners gives them a possibility not to pay for services, because you will in no way discover the actual shareholders and corporation holder.

Such organizations once in a while act like this:

VoIP traffic provider might be fraud if they can route the traffic on postpaid basis;

The organization routes 100000 minutes of traffic with the selling price 0.05 and buying price 0.048 in which case it gets 5000 USD of profit; then you ignore bills and just close the company.

Your income is 5000-700 = 4300 USD, because you pay 700 USD for another offshore company which you open at once to continue the same activity. In case you pay for the traffic the income will be less: 100000*(0.05-0.048)=200 USD.

Once the partners are deceived, owners of such corporations inaccessible. But you can defend yourself before they steal. Go on reading this and find out how you can do that.

The greatest way to defend yourself is to provide the services which have been paid for. If your partner is going to pay for the services beforehand, then there will be fewer chances that you will be fooled. Mind out. You should provide that exact amount of services, which was prepaid, not more. Otherwise your partner will use more services than they prepaid and just will not have a wish to pay for the rest.

If you do not have a way to work on prepaid basis (and believe me prepayment is very difficult to get in VoIP market), then you should thoroughly check your future partner for fake activity.

Below you will see a short check-list, which has been compiled by UcallWeconn and gives you the idea of how to discover a firm that can perform cheating activity.

Search for the organization name in Google 1. Try to look for the company name in search engines, add the name of the head, who you are going toestablish relations with. Let your imagination bloom and search for other related things like e-mail address, IM number, the address of the company. Try to skim what the search engine has found for you to make sure, that the information you’re searching for is not referred to somewhere. If it is never mentioned and you found nothing at all, it is a bad sign.

Consider Checking VoIP Fraud Lists 2. By scanning VoIP forums, deceitful companies list, VoIP public black-lists you can get new information about the company or its head, who recently wrote to you and offered to co-operate.

You Can Send Your Tech Form 3. Send the form to a partner and ask to fill in. Use the IP-address of the softswitch to identify who is a co-location supplier. Then there are two possible ways: you either have to call to a terminator and gently ask for references for their clients, who they are, if they are trusted, if they prefer to have a long-term agreement etc, or learn if your client has his own Autonomous System. In case he has none then he is less trustworthy. Otherwise he can be trusted because having own AS means, that company has serious business in the Internet.

Find out if Your Future Client Has a Website 4. Examine the website of the company. The website should contain more than one page. The more services talked of on the website and truly provided by the company, the more reliable your potential client, because they have different profit sources and will not deceive to damage their brand.

Your Partners Should Have an e-mail at Their Own Domain 5. Be suspicious to those people, who write from yahoo or gmail e-mail address. Often it might mean, that a corporation even had no wish to arrange its own mail service. So, they might not take their Internet business seriously and not have plans to have a long-term collaboration.

TheAim for Bilateral Business 6. The wish to establish bilateral relations is a good sign of a well-established organization. Everyone needs to sell in order to get income. So, during the first conversation with your potential client ask if they have good routes, how much traffic they have available, if they would like to sell something as well.

Is There an Intention To Sign NDA 7. Ask for references. Sometimes corporations have NDA between each other, so, they can’t reveal references, but NDA itself is also a good sign. Bear in mind that references should be provided by well-known long term players, not by those found in offshore countries.

A Telecom License in the Country of Residence 8. Being a telecom operator in their country is a good sign meaning that your partner is a a reliable one.

Check the Membership in Organizations, Exchanges, Conferences 9. Ask you partner about symposiums where you can meet in person and talk about upcoming partnership. A company, which actively participates in such events as GTM, Capacity, CNX by Ancotel can be thought of as a trustworthy business-partner.

Have You Been Asked for Premium Traffic With CLI and Faxes? 10. Clients with well organized activity not only with the wholesale quality traffic. Consider the fact that they also would prefer premium termination with CLI and faxes pass through.

Check Physical Office 11. One of the signs of a serious business partner is having a physical office with real equipment, employees and office furniture.

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