ABSTRACT One of the issues facing credit card fraud detection systems is that a significant percentage of the transactions labeled as fraudulent are in fact legitimate[1]. These “false alarms” delay the detection of fraudulent transactions. Analysis of 11 months of credit card transaction data from major banks was conducted to determine savings improvements that can be achieved by identifying truly fraudulent transactions. A meta-classifier model was used in this research. This model consists of 3 base classifiers constructed using the k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, and naïve Bayesian algorithms. The naive Bayesian algorithm was also used as the meta-level algorithm to combine the base classifier predictions to produce the final classifier[2]. …show more content…
Businesses are always susceptible to internal fraud or corruption from its management or employees. While external fraud is mainly about using the stolen, fake or counterfeit credit card to consume or obtain cash in disguised forms. This work is focused on the investigation of the external card fraud, which accounts for the majority of credit card frauds. Credit card fraud can be either an offline fraud or online fraud. Offline fraud is a stolen physical card at a storefront or call center. The institution issuing the card can lock the account before it is used in a fraudulent manner. Online fraud is committed via web, phone shopping or cardholder-not-present situations. The main objective in fraud detection is to identify fraud as quickly as possible once it is committed. The purpose of this work is to apply data mining strategies to a unique and to investigate whether a meta-learning strategy (a combination methodology) has the potential to save money and improve fraud detection[4]. This work primarily aims to improve current fraud detection processes by improving the prediction of fraudulent …show more content…
Clearly, global networking presents as many new opportunities for criminals as it does for businesses. While offering numerous advantages and opening up new channels for transaction business, the internet has also brought in increased probability of fraud in credit card transactions. The good news is that technology for preventing credit card frauds is also improving many folds with passage of time. Reducing cost of computing is helping in introducing complex systems, which can analyze a fraudulent transaction in a matter of fraction of a second. It is equally important to identify the right segment of transactions, which should be subject to review, as every transaction does not have the same amount of risk associated with it. Finding the optimally balanced ‘total cost of fraud’ and other measures outlined in this article can assist acquiring and issuing banks in combating frauds more efficiently. It has also been explained how the HMM can detect whether an incoming transaction is fraudulent or not . Experimental results show the performance and effectiveness of our system and demonstrate the usefulness of learning the spending profile of the cardholders. the ranges of transaction amount as the observation
The consequences also show that the term classification can be effectively approximated by the proposed clustering method. The proposed methodology is reasonable and robust. This paper demonstrates the new models totally tested and prove the results statistically significant. The paper also proves that the use of unrelated opinion is considerable for improving the performance of relevance feature discovery models. A promising methodology for developing effective text mining models for RFD discovery based on both positive and negative
Misuse detection is used to identify previously known attacks for which they require before hand knowledge of attack signature. the disadvantage of this method is that prior knowledge of the attack is required and hence new attacks cannot be identified until new attacks signature have been developed for them. In anomaly detection system monitors activity to detect any significant deviation from normal user behavior compared to known user standard behavior, this type of intrusion detection can effectively protect against both well known and new attacks since no prior knowledge about intrusion is required. One of the most significant aspects of Intrusion Detection System is the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques[39] to train the IDS about possible threats and gather information about the various traffic patterns to infer rules based on these patterns to distinguish between to differentiate between normal and intrusive
However, internal audits show findings and recommendations which act as a tool for department heads to take suitable corrective action and help in plugging the loopholes which would otherwise go undetected for a considerable period of time. The external audit lends credibility to the financial reporting process of state and local governments, and an essential element of that process is the independence of the external auditors from the governments they are auditing. Otherwise, those who use governmental financial statements cannot rely on the integrity and objectivity of the auditors’ report.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS): PCI standards talks about defining security guidelines and
A great example of fraud was when Peter and the two employees hacked the corporate system in order to transfer money to their personal accounts. Moreover, theft is executed when they stole the copier machine with the only intention to destruct it. These types of frauds have been considered misappropriation of assets since both, the money and the copier machine, were counted as a part of the company assets and they as employees of the IT company abuse of their job positions to benefit their personal needs through the omission of fraudulent
1 Target missed alarms led to 40 million credit card numbers has been stolen. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, someone installed malware in Target’s (TGT) security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s U.S. stores. And when the Christmas gifts had been scanned and bagged and the cashier asked for a swipe, the malware would step in, capture the shopper’s credit card number, and store it on a Target server commandeered by the hackers. Target claimed that the initial breaking- in its systems was traced back to network credentials that were stolen from a third party vendor.
This may be our best defense in recouping on some of the lost funds. We could say the bank did not exercise ordinary care in that they didn’t have a check verification process in place to monitor for valid signatures and valid endorsements. In fact, there have been cases where banks have been held liable as the result of failing to act with reasonable ordinary care by not performing these duties. I would support this with the case of Lund v.Chemical Bank where the courts found that “a bank’s failure to follow its own internal policies and procedures is unreasonable”, thus the bank was held
This article dealt with Bayesian and decision-analytic diagnostic systems and experimental proto- types appeared within a few years. The authors [3] have performed some experiments for tumor detection in digital mammography. In this paper different data mining techniques, neural networks and association rule mining, have been used for anomaly detection and classification. From the experimental results it is clear that the two approaches performed well, obtaining a classification accuracy reaching over 70% percent for both techniques.
Classifier C, or CL: C, can easily be used to describe the layout of a kitchen’s counter top or the placement of a couch in a
The fraud triangle is made up by three distinguished elements. These elements in the fraud triangle consist of pressure, opportunity, and rationalization. The overall representation of the fraud triangle can be seen as the specific model to spot any type of high-risk unethical and fraudulent performances being conducted by a company, in this case Cendant Corporation. Cedant Corporations actions can be analyzed by the fraud triangle by the way that their senior management/top management decisions fell into the three categories of pressure, rationalization, and opportunity. Cendant Corporation had the pressure to comply with their shareholders and to maintain a stable financial status to prove that they were a profitable organization with a bright company image.
Lastly, the lab results were evaluated using the Support Vector Machine for classification and the small-scale in-the-wild
In essence, fraud is defined as deceit where a person trusted with funds or property by another decides to misuse them. A student, for instance, is said to commit student loan fraud if they are perceived to engage in improper behaviors (Ryder, 2011). Inappropriate behaviors, in this case, refer to decisions such as using the student loan for purposes other than education, failing to repay the loans as agreed on and taking education aids when an individual does not intend to go to school. These are some of the actions that result in a person being charged with student loan fraud. Financial institutions and organizations that offer to assist students with education money expect the individuals to repay these funds in future.
He also rationalized his fraudulent activities by hiding the customer’s late payment in order to be benefitted himself, but said that he was helping people more than he was helping himself. 2. Given that Mr. Pavlo’s fraud was restricted to an accounts receivable embezzlement scheme, what symptoms might auditors observe?
The rapid proliferation of information technology has led to a significant rise in the number of people who use the internet in one way or another. With the growth in the number of persons who have an internet connection; certain individuals have begun to exploit this resource through the unethical practice of Identity theft. As more and more individuals are posting their personal information online, cybercriminals are stealing this information with the aim of assuming the victim's identity so as to either obtain financial advantage or benefits that are associated with the victim (Jewkes, 2013). The act of stealing other people's identity cannot be considered as ethical because it violates the victim's right to privacy.
Credit card fraud is a type of identity theft where a hacker steals the credit card information of a user to purchase something or withdrawing money from banks. It’s a critical crime in United States (Sayles, 2012). Everything is online now from paying bills to online purchase, a user can do anything without going anywhere physically. Even user can open a financial account. Because of this criminal can hack the user’s personal information like name, date of birth, social security number.