Case Study: World’s Largest Consumer Technology and Media Company achieves $1.5M+ annual SMS toll-fraud savings and 95% reduction in fake registrations with Arkose Labs

Global Technology Pioneer Slashes SMS Toll Fraud Costs in High-Risk Countries Working with Arkose Labs

World’s Largest Consumer Technology and Media Company was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per month to SMS toll fraud across four high‑risk countries after attackers automated fake account signups and abused OTP SMS flows. The company — built on AWS — partnered with Arkose Labs and deployed Arkose Bot Manager to stop script attacks and the subsequent shift to coerced human fraud farms.

Arkose Labs integrated Arkose Bot Manager across OTP touchpoints, using device, network, behavior and location signals plus challenge/response defenses and AWS infrastructure to detect, isolate and block attackers. The result: $1.5M+ annualized savings across four countries, a 95% reduction in abusive registrations in high‑risk sessions, a 72% drop in SMS toll fraud spend in the targeted country, zero throughput for human fraud farms, improved UX and a clear positive ROI.