Wen Deng¹, Guangjun Liang^1,2,3,*, Chenfei Yu¹, Kefan Yao¹, Chengrui Wang¹, Xuan Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1561-1576, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035016

Abstract With the frequent occurrence of telecommunications and network fraud crimes in recent years, new frauds have emerged one after another which has caused huge losses to the people. However, due to the lack of an effective preventive mechanism, the police are often in a passive position. Using technologies such as web crawlers, feature engineering, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, this paper proposes a user portrait fraud warning scheme based on Weibo public data. First, we perform preliminary screening and cleaning based on the keyword “defrauded” to obtain valid fraudulent user Identity Documents (IDs). The basic information and account information of… More >

Sumin Xie¹, Ling Liu^2,*, Guang Sun², Bin Pan², Lin Lang², Peng Guo³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1107-1117, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034917

Abstract 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)… More >

N. Alsadhan^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 241-253, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033375

Abstract 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… More >

Wang Ning^1,*, Siliang Chen^2,*, Fu Qiang², Haitao Tang², Shen Jie²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5951-5965, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035558

Abstract With the popularity of online payment, how to perform credit card fraud detection more accurately has also become a hot issue. And with the emergence of the adaptive boosting algorithm (Adaboost), credit card fraud detection has started to use this method in large numbers, but the traditional Adaboost is prone to overfitting in the presence of noisy samples. Therefore, in order to alleviate this phenomenon, this paper proposes a new idea: using the number of consecutive sample misclassifications to determine the noisy samples, while constructing a penalty factor to reconstruct the sample weight assignment. Firstly, the theoretical analysis shows that… More >

Sujithra Kanmani^*, Surendiran Balasubramanian

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 1439-1454, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.029953

Abstract Online reviews significantly influence decision-making in many aspects of society. The integrity of internet evaluations is crucial for both consumers and vendors. This concern necessitates the development of effective fake review detection techniques. The goal of this study is to identify fraudulent text reviews. A comparison is made on shill reviews vs. genuine reviews over sentiment and readability features using semi-supervised language processing methods with a labeled and balanced Deceptive Opinion dataset. We analyze textual features accessible in internet reviews by merging sentiment mining approaches with readability. Overall, the research improves fake review screening by using various transformer models such… More >

M. Valavan, S. Rita^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 231-245, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026508

Abstract Fraud detection for credit/debit card, loan defaulters and similar types is achievable with the assistance of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms as they are well capable of learning from previous fraud trends or historical data and spot them in current or future transactions. Fraudulent cases are scant in the comparison of non-fraudulent observations, almost in all the datasets. In such cases detecting fraudulent transaction are quite difficult. The most effective way to prevent loan default is to identify non-performing loans as soon as possible. Machine learning algorithms are coming into sight as adept at handling such data with enough computing influence.… More >

Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh¹, Fawaz Waselallah Alsaade^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 643-655, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.021225

Abstract In e-commerce and on social media, identifying fake opinions has become a tremendous challenge. Such opinions are widely generated on the internet by fake viewers, also called fraudsters. They write deceptive reviews that purport to reflect actual user experience either to promote some products or to defame others. They also target the reputations of e-businesses. Their aim is to mislead customers to make a wrong purchase decision by selecting undesired products. Such reviewers are often paid by rival e-business companies to compose positive reviews of their products and/or negative reviews of other companies’ products. The main objective of this paper… More >

Kanika¹, Jimmy Singla¹, Ali Kashif Bashir², Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Najam UI Hasan⁴, Usman Tariq⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2861-2877, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019990

Abstract With the rise of internet facilities, a greater number of people have started doing online transactions at an exponential rate in recent years as the online transaction system has eliminated the need of going to the bank physically for every transaction. However, the fraud cases have also increased causing the loss of money to the consumers. Hence, an effective fraud detection system is the need of the hour which can detect fraudulent transactions automatically in real-time. Generally, the genuine transactions are large in number than the fraudulent transactions which leads to the class imbalance problem. In this research work, an… More >

Shuo He^1,∗, Jianbin Zheng^1,†, Jiale Lin^2,‡, Tao Tang^1,§, Jintao Zhao^1,¶, Hongbao Liu^1,ll

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 141-149, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.141

Abstract Nowadays, many payment service providers use the discounts and other marketing strategies to promote their products. This also raises the issue of people who deliberately take advantage of such promotions to reap financial benefits. These people are known as ‘scalper parties’ or ‘econnoisseurs’ which can constitute an underground industry. In this paper, we show how to use machine learning to assist in identifying abnormal scalper transactions. Moreover, we introduce the basic methods of Decision Tree and Boosting Tree, and show how these classification methods can be applied in the detection of abnormal transactions. In addition, we introduce a graph computing… More >

Yiğit Kültür, Mehmet Ufuk Çağlayan

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.4, pp. 807-817, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2017.1342415

Abstract Because credit card fraud costs the banking sector billions of dollars every year, decreasing the losses incurred from credit card fraud is an important driver for the sector and end-users. In this paper, we focus on analyzing cardholder spending behavior and propose a novel cardholder behavior model for detecting credit card fraud. The model is called the Cardholder Behavior Model (CBM). Two focus points are proposed and evaluated for CBMs. The first focus point is building the behavior model using single-card transactions versus multi-card transactions. As the second focus point, we introduce holiday seasons as spending periods that are different… More >