Image Recognition Model of Fraudulent Websites Based on Image Leader Decision and Inception-V3 Transfer Learning

The fraudulent website image is a vital information carrier for telecom fraud.The efficient and precise recognition of fraudulent website images is critical to combating and dealing with fraudulent websites.Current research on image recognition of fraudulent websites is mainly carried out at the level of image feature extraction and similarity study,which have such disadvantages as difficulty in obtaining image data,insufficient image analysis,and single identification types.This study develops a model based on the entropy method for image leader decision and Inception-v3 transfer learning to address these disadvantages.The data processing part of the model uses a breadth search crawler to capture the image data.Then,the information in the images is evaluated with the entropy method,image weights are assigned,and the image leader is selected.In model training and prediction,the transfer learning of the Inception-v3 model is introduced into image recognition of fraudulent websites.Using selected image leaders to train the model,multiple types of fraudulent websites are identified with high accuracy.The experiment proves that this model has a superior accuracy in recognizing images on fraudulent websites compared to other current models.

The Effects of Competence and Auditor Training on Fraud Detection Within Multinational Companies in Sub-Saharan Africa

The aim of this study is to examine the qualities that auditors engaged in detecting potential fraud within multinational corporations in Sub-Saharan Africa should possess.To achieve this goal,a quantitative approach was used to develop and test a research model based on three theories:agency theory,attribution theory,and cognitive dissonance theory.Responses from a panel of two hundred and nine(209)auditors who conducted a legal audit mission in a Sub-Saharan multinational were analyzed using SmartPLS 3.3.3 software.The results emphasize the crucial importance of auditors’competence and continuous training in fraud detection.However,professional skepticism and time pressure were found to be non-significant in this context.This conclusion provides essential insights for auditors,highlighting the key qualities needed to effectively address fraud detection within multinational corporations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

NFA:A neural factorization autoencoder based online telephony fraud detection

The proliferation of internet communication channels has increased telecom fraud,causing billions of euros in losses for customers and the industry each year.Fraudsters constantly find new ways to engage in illegal activity on the network.To reduce these losses,a new fraud detection approach is required.Telecom fraud detection involves identifying a small number of fraudulent calls from a vast amount of call traffic.Developing an effective strategy to combat fraud has become challenging.Although much effort has been made to detect fraud,most existing methods are designed for batch processing,not real-time detection.To solve this problem,we propose an online fraud detection model using a Neural Factorization Autoencoder(NFA),which analyzes customer calling patterns to detect fraudulent calls.The model employs Neural Factorization Machines(NFM)and an Autoencoder(AE)to model calling patterns and a memory module to adapt to changing customer behaviour.We evaluate our approach on a large dataset of real-world call detail records and compare it with several state-of-the-art methods.Our results show that our approach outperforms the baselines,with an AUC of 91.06%,a TPR of 91.89%,an FPR of 14.76%,and an F1-score of 95.45%.These results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in detecting fraud in real-time and suggest that it can be a valuable tool for preventing fraud in telecommunications networks.

Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Improved Deep Learning Models

Fraud of credit cards is a major issue for financial organizations and individuals.As fraudulent actions become more complex,a demand for better fraud detection systems is rising.Deep learning approaches have shown promise in several fields,including detecting credit card fraud.However,the efficacy of these models is heavily dependent on the careful selection of appropriate hyperparameters.This paper introduces models that integrate deep learning models with hyperparameter tuning techniques to learn the patterns and relationships within credit card transaction data,thereby improving fraud detection.Three deep learning models:AutoEncoder(AE),Convolution Neural Network(CNN),and Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM)are proposed to investigate how hyperparameter adjustment impacts the efficacy of deep learning models used to identify credit card fraud.The experiments conducted on a European credit card fraud dataset using different hyperparameters and three deep learning models demonstrate that the proposed models achieve a tradeoff between detection rate and precision,leading these models to be effective in accurately predicting credit card fraud.The results demonstrate that LSTM significantly outperformed AE and CNN in terms of accuracy(99.2%),detection rate(93.3%),and area under the curve(96.3%).These proposed models have surpassed those of existing studies and are expected to make a significant contribution to the field of credit card fraud detection.

A Self-Adapting and Efficient Dandelion Algorithm and Its Application to Feature Selection for Credit Card Fraud Detection

A dandelion algorithm(DA) is a recently developed intelligent optimization algorithm for function optimization problems. Many of its parameters need to be set by experience in DA,which might not be appropriate for all optimization problems. A self-adapting and efficient dandelion algorithm is proposed in this work to lower the number of DA's parameters and simplify DA's structure. Only the normal sowing operator is retained;while the other operators are discarded. An adaptive seeding radius strategy is designed for the core dandelion. The results show that the proposed algorithm achieves better performance on the standard test functions with less time consumption than its competitive peers. In addition, the proposed algorithm is applied to feature selection for credit card fraud detection(CCFD), and the results indicate that it can obtain higher classification and detection performance than the-state-of-the-art methods.

An Anti-Fraud Policy:A Theoretical Framework for a Prosperity Tripod of Massive Data,Blockchain,and AI

The authors’aspiration was to learn-and focus on policy against fraud-leading to the sustainably growing societal illnesses of dishonesty,fraud,pessimism,and divisive issues.The appropriate venue,within the currently evolving laws and regulations,is proposed to be a three-tier combination of massive data,including data accumulation,transformation,organization,stratification,estimations,data analysis,and blockchain technology,predicted to revolutionize competition and efficiency,which are further suggested to be prerequisites for a more successful creation and implementation of the third element,AI.A currently evolving prosperity tripod is hinging on the three technological legs of the massive data control/management,blockchain tech,and a rapidly growing AI.While briefly incorporating some analysis of the blockchain application,we have analytically focused on the rest-the data and AI-of what we deem to be the prospective prosperity tripod for businesses,markets,and societies,in general,despite the challenges and risks involved in each.Instead of h ypothesizing a predetermined economic model,we are proposing a data-based Vector Autoregression(VAR)methodology for the AI with an application to the fraud and anti-fraud structure and policymaking.Hopefully,the entire attempt would portend some tangible prospective contribution in an achievable positive societal change.

Real-Time Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning

Credit card fraud remains a significant challenge, with financial losses and consumer protection at stake. This study addresses the need for practical, real-time fraud detection methodologies. Using a Kaggle credit card dataset, I tackle class imbalance using the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) to enhance modeling efficiency. I compare several machine learning algorithms, including Logistic Regression, Linear Discriminant Analysis, K-nearest Neighbors, Classification and Regression Tree, Naive Bayes, Support Vector, Random Forest, XGBoost, and Light Gradient-Boosting Machine to classify transactions as fraud or genuine. Rigorous evaluation metrics, such as AUC, PRAUC, F1, KS, Recall, and Precision, identify the Random Forest as the best performer in detecting fraudulent activities. The Random Forest model successfully identifies approximately 92% of transactions scoring 90 and above as fraudulent, equating to a detection rate of over 70% for all fraudulent transactions in the test dataset. Moreover, the model captures more than half of the fraud in each bin of the test dataset. SHAP values provide model explainability, with the SHAP summary plot highlighting the global importance of individual features, such as “V12” and “V14”. SHAP force plots offer local interpretability, revealing the impact of specific features on individual predictions. This study demonstrates the potential of machine learning, particularly the Random Forest model, for real-time credit card fraud detection, offering a promising approach to mitigate financial losses and protect consumers.

A Credit Card Fraud Detection Model Based on Multi-Feature Fusion and Generative Adversarial Network

Credit Card Fraud Detection(CCFD)is an essential technology for banking institutions to control fraud risks and safeguard their reputation.Class imbalance and insufficient representation of feature data relating to credit card transactions are two prevalent issues in the current study field of CCFD,which significantly impact classification models’performance.To address these issues,this research proposes a novel CCFD model based on Multifeature Fusion and Generative Adversarial Networks(MFGAN).The MFGAN model consists of two modules:a multi-feature fusion module for integrating static and dynamic behavior data of cardholders into a unified highdimensional feature space,and a balance module based on the generative adversarial network to decrease the class imbalance ratio.The effectiveness of theMFGAN model is validated on two actual credit card datasets.The impacts of different class balance ratios on the performance of the four resamplingmodels are analyzed,and the contribution of the two different modules to the performance of the MFGAN model is investigated via ablation experiments.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model does better than state-of-the-art models in terms of recall,F1,and Area Under the Curve(AUC)metrics,which means that the MFGAN model can help banks find more fraudulent transactions and reduce fraud losses.

Multimodal Fraudulent Website Identification Method Based on Heterogeneous Model Ensemble

The feature analysis of fraudulent websites is of great significance to the combat,prevention and control of telecom fraud crimes.Aiming to address the shortcomings of existing analytical approaches,i.e.single dimension and venerability to anti-reconnaissance,this paper adopts the Stacking,the ensemble learning algorithm,combines multiple modalities such as text,image and URL,and proposes a multimodal fraudulent website identification method by ensembling heterogeneous models.Crossvalidation is first used in the training of multiple largely different base classifiers that are strong in learning,such as BERT model,residual neural network(ResNet)and logistic regression model.Classification of the text,image and URL features are then performed respectively.The results of the base classifiers are taken as the input of the meta-classifier,and the output of which is eventually used as the final identification.The study indicates that the fusion method is more effective in identifying fraudulent websites than the single-modal method,and the recall is increased by at least 1%.In addition,the deployment of the algorithm to the real Internet environment shows the improvement of the identification accuracy by at least 1.9%compared with other fusion methods.

A Credit Card Fraud Model Prediction Method Based on Penalty Factor Optimization AWTadaboost

With the popularity of online payment, how to perform creditcard fraud detection more accurately has also become a hot issue. And withthe emergence of the adaptive boosting algorithm (Adaboost), credit cardfraud detection has started to use this method in large numbers, but thetraditional Adaboost is prone to overfitting in the presence of noisy samples.Therefore, in order to alleviate this phenomenon, this paper proposes a newidea: using the number of consecutive sample misclassifications to determinethe noisy samples, while constructing a penalty factor to reconstruct thesample weight assignment. Firstly, the theoretical analysis shows that thetraditional Adaboost method is overfitting in a noisy training set, which leadsto the degradation of classification accuracy. To this end, the penalty factorconstructed by the number of consecutive misclassifications of samples isused to reconstruct the sample weight assignment to prevent the classifierfrom over-focusing on noisy samples, and its reasonableness is demonstrated.Then, by comparing the penalty strength of the three different penalty factorsproposed in this paper, a more reasonable penalty factor is selected.Meanwhile, in order to make the constructed model more in line with theactual requirements on training time consumption, the Adaboost algorithmwith adaptive weight trimming (AWTAdaboost) is used in this paper, so thepenalty factor-based AWTAdaboost (PF_AWTAdaboost) is finally obtained.Finally, PF_AWTAdaboost is experimentally validated against other traditionalmachine learning algorithms on credit card fraud datasets and otherdatasets. The results show that the PF_AWTAdaboost method has betterperformance, including detection accuracy, model recall and robustness, thanother methods on the credit card fraud dataset. And the PF_AWTAdaboostmethod also shows excellent generalization performance on other datasets.From the experimental results, it is shown that the PF_AWTAdaboost algorithmhas better classification performance.

Enhanced E-commerce Fraud Prediction Based on a Convolutional Neural Network Model

The rapidly escalating sophistication of e-commerce fraud in recent years has led to an increasing reliance on fraud detection methods based on machine learning.However,fraud detection methods based on conventional machine learning approaches suffer from several problems,including an excessively high number of network parameters,which decreases the efficiency and increases the difficulty of training the network,while simultaneously leading to network overfitting.In addition,the sparsity of positive fraud incidents relative to the overwhelming proportion of negative incidents leads to detection failures in trained networks.The present work addresses these issues by proposing a convolutional neural network(CNN)framework for detecting ecommerce fraud,where network training is conducted using historical market transaction data.The number of network parameters reduces via the local perception field and weight sharing inherent in the CNN framework.In addition,this deep learning framework enables the use of an algorithmiclevel approach to address dataset imbalance by focusing the CNN model on minority data classes.The proposed CNN model is trained and tested using a large public e-commerce service dataset from 2018,and the test results demonstrate that the model provides higher fraud prediction accuracy than existing state-of-the-art methods.

The Detection of Fraudulent Smart Contracts Based on ECA-EfficientNet and Data Enhancement

With the increasing popularity of Ethereum,smart contracts have become a prime target for fraudulent activities such as Ponzi,honeypot,gambling,and phishing schemes.While some researchers have studied intelligent fraud detection,most research has focused on identifying Ponzi contracts,with little attention given to detecting and preventing gambling or phishing contracts.There are three main issues with current research.Firstly,there exists a severe data imbalance between fraudulent and non-fraudulent contracts.Secondly,the existing detection methods rely on diverse raw features that may not generalize well in identifying various classes of fraudulent contracts.Lastly,most prior studies have used contract source code as raw features,but many smart contracts only exist in bytecode.To address these issues,we propose a fraud detection method that utilizes Efficient Channel Attention EfficientNet(ECA-EfficientNet)and data enhancement.Our method begins by converting bytecode into Red Green Blue(RGB)three-channel images and then applying channel exchange data enhancement.We then use the enhanced ECA-EfficientNet approach to classify fraudulent smart contract RGB images.Our proposed method achieves high F1-score and Recall on both publicly available Ponzi datasets and self-built multi-classification datasets that include Ponzi,honeypot,gambling,and phishing smart contracts.The results of the experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms current methods and their variants in Ponzi contract detection.Our research addresses a significant problem in smart contract security and offers an effective and efficient solution for detecting fraudulent contracts.

Intelligent Financial Fraud Detection Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Based Recurrent Neural Network

Frauds don’t follow any recurring patterns.They require the use of unsupervised learning since their behaviour is continually changing.Fraud-sters have access to the most recent technology,which gives them the ability to defraud people through online transactions.Fraudsters make assumptions about consumers’routine behaviour,and fraud develops swiftly.Unsupervised learning must be used by fraud detection systems to recognize online payments since some fraudsters start out using online channels before moving on to other techniques.Building a deep convolutional neural network model to identify anomalies from conventional competitive swarm optimization pat-terns with a focus on fraud situations that cannot be identified using historical data or supervised learning is the aim of this paper Artificial Bee Colony(ABC).Using real-time data and other datasets that are readily available,the ABC-Recurrent Neural Network(RNN)categorizes fraud behaviour and compares it to the current algorithms.When compared to the current approach,the findings demonstrate that the accuracy is high and the training error is minimal in ABC_RNN.In this paper,we measure the Accuracy,F1 score,Mean Square Error(MSE)and Mean Absolute Error(MAE).Our system achieves 97%accuracy,92%precision rate and F1 score 97%.Also we compare the simulation results with existing methods.

CDR2IMG:A Bridge from Text to Image in Telecommunication Fraud Detection

Telecommunication fraud has run rampant recently worldwide.However,previous studies depend highly on expert knowledge-based feature engineering to extract behavior information,which cannot adapt to the fastchanging modes of fraudulent subscribers.Therefore,we propose a new taxonomy that needs no hand-designed features but directly takes raw Call DetailRecords(CDR)data as input for the classifier.Concretely,we proposed a fraud detectionmethod using a convolutional neural network(CNN)by taking CDR data as images and applying computer vision techniques like image augmentation.Comprehensive experiments on the real-world dataset from the 2020 Digital Sichuan Innovation Competition show that our proposed method outperforms the classic methods in many metrics with excellent stability in both the changes of quantity and the balance of samples.Compared with the state-of-the-art method,the proposed method has achieved about 89.98%F1-score and 92.93%AUC,improving 2.97%and 0.48%,respectively.With the augmentation technique,the model’s performance can be further enhanced by a 91.09%F1-score and a 94.49%AUC respectively.Beyond telecommunication fraud detection,our method can also be extended to other text datasets to automatically discover new features in the view of computer vision and its powerful methods.

A Multi-Module Machine Learning Approach to Detect Tax Fraud

Tax fraud is one of the substantial issues affecting governments around the world.It is defined as the intentional alteration of information provided on a tax return to reduce someone’s tax liability.This is done by either reducing sales or increasing purchases.According to recent studies,governments lose over$500 billion annually due to tax fraud.A loss of this magnitude motivates tax authorities worldwide to implement efficient fraud detection strategies.Most of the work done in tax fraud using machine learning is centered on supervised models.A significant drawback of this approach is that it requires tax returns that have been previously audited,which constitutes a small percentage of the data.Other strategies focus on using unsupervised models that utilize the whole data when they search for patterns,though ignore whether the tax returns are fraudulent or not.Therefore,unsupervised models are limited in their usefulness if they are used independently to detect tax fraud.The work done in this paper focuses on addressing such limitations by proposing a fraud detection framework that utilizes supervised and unsupervised models to exploit the entire set of tax returns.The framework consists of four modules:A supervised module,which utilizes a tree-based model to extract knowledge from the data;an unsupervised module,which calculates anomaly scores;a behavioral module,which assigns a compliance score for each taxpayer;and a prediction module,which utilizes the output of the previous modules to output a probability of fraud for each tax return.We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework by testing it on existent tax returns provided by the Saudi tax authority.

Online payment fraud:from anomaly detection to risk management

Online banking fraud occurs whenever a criminal can seize accounts and transfer funds from an individual’s online bank account.Successfully preventing this requires the detection of as many fraudsters as possible,without producing too many false alarms.This is a challenge for machine learning owing to the extremely imbalanced data and complexity of fraud.In addition,classical machine learning methods must be extended,minimizing expected financial losses.Finally,fraud can only be combated systematically and economically if the risks and costs in payment channels are known.We define three models that overcome these challenges:machine learning-based fraud detection,economic optimization of machine learning results,and a risk model to predict the risk of fraud while considering countermeasures.The models were tested utilizing real data.Our machine learning model alone reduces the expected and unexpected losses in the three aggregated payment channels by 15%compared to a benchmark consisting of static if-then rules.Optimizing the machine-learning model further reduces the expected losses by 52%.These results hold with a low false positive rate of 0.4%.Thus,the risk framework of the three models is viable from a business and risk perspective.

Machine Learning-Based Approach for Identification of SIM Box Bypass Fraud in a Telecom Network Based on CDR Analysis: Case of a Fixed and Mobile Operator in Cameroon

In the telecommunications sector, companies suffer serious damages due to fraud, especially in Africa. One of the main types of fraud is SIM box bypass fraud, which includes using SIM cards to divert incoming international calls from mobile operators creating massive losses of revenue. In order to provide a solution to these shortcomings that apply almost to all network operators, we developed intelligent algorithms that exploit huge amounts of data from mobile operators and that detect fraud by analyzing CDRs from voice calls. In this paper we used three classification techniques: Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and XGBoost to detect this type of fraud;we compared the performance of these different algorithms to evaluate the model by using data collected from an operator’s network in Cameroon. The algorithm that produced a better performance was the Random Forest with 92% accuracy, so we effectuated the detection of existing fraudulent numbers on the telecommunications operator’s network.

Credit Card Fraud Detection on Original European Credit Card Holder Dataset Using Ensemble Machine Learning Technique

The proliferation of digital payment methods facilitated by various online platforms and applications has led to a surge in financial fraud,particularly in credit card transactions.Advanced technologies such as machine learning have been widely employed to enhance the early detection and prevention of losses arising frompotentially fraudulent activities.However,a prevalent approach in existing literature involves the use of extensive data sampling and feature selection algorithms as a precursor to subsequent investigations.While sampling techniques can significantly reduce computational time,the resulting dataset relies on generated data and the accuracy of the pre-processing machine learning models employed.Such datasets often lack true representativeness of realworld data,potentially introducing secondary issues that affect the precision of the results.For instance,undersampling may result in the loss of critical information,while over-sampling can lead to overfitting machine learning models.In this paper,we proposed a classification study of credit card fraud using fundamental machine learning models without the application of any sampling techniques on all the features present in the original dataset.The results indicate that Support Vector Machine(SVM)consistently achieves classification performance exceeding 90%across various evaluation metrics.This discovery serves as a valuable reference for future research,encouraging comparative studies on original dataset without the reliance on sampling techniques.Furthermore,we explore hybrid machine learning techniques,such as ensemble learning constructed based on SVM,K-Nearest Neighbor(KNN)and decision tree,highlighting their potential advancements in the field.The study demonstrates that the proposed machine learning models yield promising results,suggesting that pre-processing the dataset with sampling algorithm or additional machine learning technique may not always be necessary.This research contributes to the field of credit card fraud detection by emphasizing the potential of employing machine learning models directly on original datasets,thereby simplifying the workflow and potentially improving the accuracy and efficiency of fraud detection systems.

Fraud detections for online businesses:a perspective from blockchain technology

Background:The reputation system has been designed as an effective mechanism to reduce risks associated with online shopping for customers.However,it is vulnerable to rating fraud.Some raters may inject unfairly high or low ratings to the system so as to promote their own products or demote their competitors.Method:This study explores the rating fraud by differentiating the subjective fraud from objective fraud.Then it discusses the effectiveness of blockchain technology in objective fraud and its limitation in subjective fraud,especially the rating fraud.Lastly,it systematically analyzes the robustness of blockchain-based reputation systems in each type of rating fraud.Results:The detection of fraudulent raters is not easy since they can behave strategically to camouflage themselves.We explore the potential strengths and limitations of blockchain-based reputation systems under two attack goals:ballot-stuffing and bad-mouthing,and various attack models including constant attack,camouflage attack,whitewashing attack and sybil attack.Blockchain-based reputation systems are more robust against bad-mouthing than ballot-stuffing fraud.Conclusions:Blockchain technology provides new opportunities for redesigning the reputation system.Blockchain systems are very effective in preventing objective information fraud,such as loan application fraud,where fraudulent information is fact-based.However,their effectiveness is limited in subjective information fraud,such as rating fraud,where the ground-truth is not easily validated.Blockchain systems are effective in preventing bad mouthing and whitewashing attack,but they are limited in detecting ballot-stuffing under sybil attack,constant attacks and camouflage attack.

Financial Statements Frauds: Does Their Intensity Have a Connection with Earnings Management?

This study investigates the relationship between earnings management and financial statements frauds.We examine how earnings management practices;done in the two years before the fraud,impact the likelihood of fraud occurrence.Moreover,we introduce a new measure for the fraud intensity.Using a sample of 70 fraud and 70 no-fraud firms,we find that firms committing fraud of higher intensity have managed earnings in the two years before the fraud occurrence.This paper contributes to the literature about fraud antecedents because it is the first study measuring the relationship between earnings management and the intensity of the fraud,and it can be also useful for practitioners,because using the analysis of earnings management practices,analysts can foresee and prevent financial statements frauds.