Awesome Fraud Detection Research Papers.

A curated list of papers about fraud detection from the following conferences:

• Network Science
  • ASONAM
  • COMPLEX NETWORKS
• Data Science
  • DSAA
• Natural Language Processing
  • ACL
• Data Mining
  • KDD
  • ICDM
  • SIGIR
  • SDM
  • WWW
  • CIKM
• Artificial Intelligence
  • AAAI
  • AISTATS
  • IJCAI
  • UAI
• Databases
  • VLDB

Similar collections about graph classification, classification/regression tree, gradient boosting, Monte Carlo tree search, and community detection papers with implementations.

2020

• FlowScope: Spotting Money Laundering Based on Graphs (AAAI 2020)
  • Xiangfeng Li, Shenghua Liu, Zifeng Li, Xiaotian Han, Chuan Shi, Bryan Hooi, He Huang, Xueqi Cheng
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2019

• SliceNDice: Mining Suspicious Multi-attribute Entity Groups with Multi-view Graphs (DSAA 2019)

  • Hamed Nilforoshan, Neil Shah
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• FARE: Schema-Agnostic Anomaly Detection in Social Event Logs (DSAA 2019)

  • Neil Shah
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• Cash-Out User Detection Based on Attributed Heterogeneous Information Network with a Hierarchical Attention Mechanism (AAAI 2019)

  • Binbin Hu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Chuan Shi, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Yuan Qi
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• SAFE: A Neural Survival Analysis Model for Fraud Early Detection (AAAI 2019)

  • Panpan Zheng, Shuhan Yuan, Xintao Wu
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• One-Class Adversarial Nets for Fraud Detection (AAAI 2019)

  • Panpan Zheng, Shuhan Yuan, Xintao Wu, Jun Li, Aidong Lu
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• Uncovering Download Fraud Activities in Mobile App Markets (ASONAM 2019)

  • Yingtong Dou, Weijian Li, Zhirong Liu, Zhenhua Dong, Jiebo Luo, Philip S. Yu
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• Spam Review Detection with Graph Convolutional Networks (CIKM 2019)

  • Ao Li, Zhou Qin, Runshi Liu, Yiqun Yang, Dong Li
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• Key Player Identification in Underground Forums Over Attributed Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding Framework (CIKM 2019)

  • Yiming Zhang, Yujie Fan, Yanfang Ye, Liang Zhao, Chuan Shi
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• Spotting Collective Behaviour of Online Frauds in Customer Reviews (IJCAI 2019)

  • Sarthika Dhawan, Siva Charan Reddy Gangireddy, Shiv Kumar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
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• A Semi-Supervised Graph Attentive Network for Fraud Detection (ICDM 2019)

  • Daixin Wang, Jianbin Lin, Peng Cui, Quanhui Jia, Zhen Wang, Yanming Fang, Quan Yu, Jun Zhou, Shuang Yang, and Qi Yuan
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• Uncovering Insurance Fraud Conspiracy with Network Learning (SIGIR 2019)

  • Chen Liang, Ziqi Liu, Bin Liu, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Shuang Yang, Yuan Qi
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• Think Outside the Dataset: Finding Fraudulent Reviews using Cross-Dataset Analysis (WWW 2019)

  • Shirin Nilizadeh, Hojjat Aghakhani, Eric Gustafson, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
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• Securing the Deep Fraud Detector in Large-Scale E-Commerce Platform via Adversarial Machine Learning Approach (WWW 2019)

  • Qingyu Guo, Zhao Li, Bo An, Pengrui Hui, Jiaming Huang, Long Zhang, Mengchen Zhao
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• No Place to Hide: Catching Fraudulent Entities in Tensors (WWW 2019)

  • Yikun Ban, Xin Liu, Ling Huang, Yitao Duan, Xue Liu, Wei Xu
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• FdGars: Fraudster Detection via Graph Convolutional Networks in Online App Review System (WWW 2019)

  • Rui Wen, Jianyu Wang and Yu Huang
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2018

• Reinforcement Mechanism Design for Fraudulent Behaviour in e-Commerce (AAAI 2018)

  • Qingpeng Cai, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Pingzhong Tang, Yiwei Zhang
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• Adapting to Concept Drift in Credit Card Transaction Data Streams Using Contextual Bandits and Decision Trees (AAAI 2018)

  • Dennis J. N. J. Soemers, Tim Brys, Kurt Driessens, Mark H. M. Winands, Ann Nowé
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• Nextgen AML: Distributed Deep Learning Based Language Technologies to Augment Anti Money Laundering Investigation(ACL 2018)

  • Jingguang Han, Utsab Barman, Jeremiah Hayes, Jinhua Du, Edward Burgin, Dadong Wan
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• Preserving Privacy of Fraud Detection Rule Sharing Using Intel's SGX (CIKM 2018)

  • Daniel Deutch, Yehonatan Ginzberg, Tova Milo
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• Deep Structure Learning for Fraud Detection (ICDM 2018)

  • Haibo Wang, Chuan Zhou, Jia Wu, Weizhen Dang, Xingquan Zhu, Jilong Wang
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• Learning Sequential Behavior Representations for Fraud Detection (ICDM 2018)

  • Jia Guo, Guannan Liu, Yuan Zuo, Junjie Wu
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• Impression Allocation for Combating Fraud in E-commerce Via Deep Reinforcement Learning with Action Norm Penalty (IJCAI 2018)

  • Mengchen Zhao, Zhao Li, Bo An, Haifeng Lu, Yifan Yang, Chen Chu
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• Tax Fraud Detection for Under-Reporting Declarations Using an Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach (KDD 2018)

  • Daniel de Roux, Boris Perez, Andrés Moreno, María-Del-Pilar Villamil, César Figueroa
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• Collective Fraud Detection Capturing Inter-Transaction Dependency (KDD 2018)

  • Bokai Cao, Mia Mao, Siim Viidu, Philip Yu
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• Fraud Detection with Density Estimation Trees (KDD 2018)

  • Fraud Detection with Density Estimation Trees
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• Real-time Constrained Cycle Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs (VLDB 2018)

  • Xiafei Qiu, Wubin Cen, Zhengping Qian, You Peng, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jingren Zhou
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• REV2: Fraudulent User Prediction in Rating Platforms (WSDM 2018)

  • Srijan Kumar, Bryan Hooi, Disha Makhija, Mohit Kumar, Christos Faloutsos, V. S. Subrahmanian
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• Exposing Search and Advertisement Abuse Tactics and Infrastructure of Technical Support Scammers (WWW 2018)

  • Bharat Srinivasan, Athanasios Kountouras, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Monjur Alam, Nick Nikiforakis, Manos Antonakakis, Mustaque Ahamad
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2017

• Behavioral Analysis of Review Fraud: Linking Malicious Crowdsourcing to Amazon and Beyond (AAAI 2017)

  • Parisa Kaghazgaran, James Caverlee, Majid Alfifi
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• Detection of Money Laundering Groups: Supervised Learning on Small Networks (AAAI 2017)

  • David Savage, Qingmai Wang, Xiuzhen Zhang, Pauline Chou, Xinghuo Yu
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• Spectrum-based Deep Neural Networks for Fraud Detection (CIKM 2017)

  • Shuhan Yuan, Xintao Wu, Jun Li, Aidong Lu
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• HoloScope: Topology-and-Spike Aware Fraud Detection (CIKM 2017)

  • Shenghua Liu, Bryan Hooi, Christos Faloutsos
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• The Many Faces of Link Fraud (ICDM 2017)

  • Neil Shah, Hemank Lamba, Alex Beutel, Christos Faloutsos
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• HitFraud: A Broad Learning Approach for Collective Fraud Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks (ICDM 2017)

  • Bokai Cao, Mia Mao, Siim Viidu, Philip S. Yu
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• GANG: Detecting Fraudulent Users in Online Social Networks via Guilt-by-Association on Directed Graphs (ICDM 2017)

  • Binghui Wang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Hao Fu
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• Improving Card Fraud Detection Through Suspicious Pattern Discovery (IEA/AIE 2017)

  • Fabian Braun, Olivier Caelen, Evgueni N. Smirnov, Steven Kelk, Bertrand Lebichot:
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• Online Reputation Fraud Campaign Detection in User Ratings (IJCAI 2017)

  • Chang Xu, Jie Zhang, Zhu Sun
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• Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Financial Services Big Data by Unsupervised Methodologies: Present and Future trends (KDD 2017)

  • Gil Shabat, David Segev, Amir Averbuch
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• PD-FDS: Purchase Density based Online Credit Card Fraud Detection System (KDD 2017)

  • Youngjoon Ki, Ji Won Yoon
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• HiDDen: Hierarchical Dense Subgraph Detection with Application to Financial Fraud Detection (SDM 2017)

  • Si Zhang, Dawei Zhou, Mehmet Yigit Yildirim, Scott Alcorn, Jingrui He, Hasan Davulcu, Hanghang Tong
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2016

• A Fraud Resilient Medical Insurance Claim System (AAAI 2016)

  • Yuliang Shi, Chenfei Sun, Qingzhong Li, Lizhen Cui, Han Yu, Chunyan Miao
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• A Graph-Based, Semi-Supervised, Credit Card Fraud Detection System (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016)

  • Bertrand Lebichot, Fabian Braun, Olivier Caelen, Marco Saerens
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• FRAUDAR: Bounding Graph Fraud in the Face of Camouflage (KDD 2016)

  • Bryan Hooi, Hyun Ah Song, Alex Beutel, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin, Christos Faloutsos
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• Identifying Anomalies in Graph Streams Using Change Detection (KDD 2016)

  • William Eberle and Lawrence Holde
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• FairPlay: Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play (SDM 2016)

  • Mahmudur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Duen Horng Chau
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• BIRDNEST: Bayesian Inference for Ratings-Fraud Detection (SDM 2016)

  • Bryan Hooi, Neil Shah, Alex Beutel, Stephan Günnemann, Leman Akoglu, Mohit Kumar, Disha Makhija, Christos Faloutsos
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• Understanding the Detection of View Fraud in Video Content Portals (WWW 2016)

  • Miriam Marciel, Rubén Cuevas, Albert Banchs, Roberto Gonzalez, Stefano Traverso, Mohamed Ahmed, Arturo Azcorra
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2015

• Toward An Intelligent Agent for Fraud Detection — The CFE Agent (AAAI 2015)

  • Joe Johnson
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• Graph Analysis for Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Data (AAAI 2015)

  • Juan Liu, Eric Bier, Aaron Wilson, Tomonori Honda, Kumar Sricharan, Leilani Gilpin, John Alexis Guerra Gómez, Daniel Davies
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• Robust System for Identifying Procurement Fraud (AAAI 2015)

  • Amit Dhurandhar, Rajesh Kumar Ravi, Bruce Graves, Gopikrishnan Maniachari, Markus Ettl
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• Fraud Transaction Recognition: A Money Flow Network Approach (CIKM 2015)

  • Renxin Mao, Zhao Li, Jinhua Fu
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• Towards Collusive Fraud Detection in Online Reviews (ICDM 2015)

  • Chang Xu, Jie Zhang
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• Catch the Black Sheep: Unified Framework for Shilling Attack Detection Based on Fraudulent Action Propagation (IJCAI 2015)

  • Yongfeng Zhang, Yunzhi Tan, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Shaoping Ma
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• Graph-Based User Behavior Modeling: From Prediction to Fraud Detection (KDD 2015)

  • Alex Beutel, Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos
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• FrauDetector: A Graph-Mining-based Framework for Fraudulent Phone Call Detection (KDD 2015)

  • Vincent S. Tseng, Jia-Ching Ying, Che-Wei Huang, Yimin Kao, Kuan-Ta Chen
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• A Framework for Intrusion Detection Based on Frequent Subgraph Mining (SDM 2015)

  • Vitali Herrera-Semenets, Niusvel Acosta-Mendoza, Andres Gago-Alonso
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• Crowd Fraud Detection in Internet Advertising (WWW 2015)

  • Tian Tian, Jun Zhu, Fen Xia, Xin Zhuang, Tong Zhang
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2014

• Fraudulent Support Telephone Number Identification Based on Co-Occurrence Information on the Web (AAAI 2014)

  • Xin Li, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma
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• Corporate Residence Fraud Detection (KDD 2014)

  • Enric Junqué de Fortuny, Marija Stankova, Julie Moeyersoms, Bart Minnaert, Foster J. Provost, David Martens
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• Graphical Models for Identifying Fraud and Waste in Healthcare Claims (SDM 2014)

  • Peder A. Olsen, Ramesh Natarajan, Sholom M. Weiss
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• Improving Credit Card Fraud Detection with Calibrated Probabilities (SDM 2014)

  • Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, Aleksandar Stojanovic, Djamila Aouada, Björn E. Ottersten
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• Large Graph Mining: Patterns, Cascades, Fraud Detection, and Algorithms (WWW 2014)

  • Christos Faloutsos
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2013

• Opinion Fraud Detection in Online Reviews by Network Effects (AAAI 2013)

  • Leman Akoglu, Rishi Chandy, Christos Faloutsos
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• Using Social Network Knowledge for Detecting Spider Constructions in Social Security Fraud (ASONAM 2013)

  • Véronique Van Vlasselaer, Jan Meskens, Dries Van Dromme, Bart Baesens
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• Ranking Fraud Detection for Mobile Apps: a Holistic View (CIKM 2013)

  • Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong, Yong Ge, Enhong Chen
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• Using Co-Visitation Networks for Detecting Large Scale Online Display Advertising Exchange Fraud (KDD 2013)

  • Ori Stitelman, Claudia Perlich, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Troy Raeder, Foster J. Provost
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• Adaptive Adversaries: Building Systems to Fight Fraud and Cyber Intruders (KDD 2013)

  • Ari Gesher
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• Anomaly, Event, and Fraud Detection in Large Network Datasets (WSDM 2013)

  • Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos
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2012

• Fraud Detection: Methods of Analysis for Hypergraph Data (ASONAM 2012)

  • Anna Leontjeva, Konstantin Tretyakov, Jaak Vilo, and Taavi Tamkivi
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• Online Modeling of Proactive Moderation System for Auction Fraud Detection (WWW 2012)

  • Liang Zhang, Jie Yang, Belle L. Tseng
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2011

• A Machine-Learned Proactive Moderation System for Auction Fraud Detection (CIKM 2011)

  • Liang Zhang, Jie Yang, Wei Chu, Belle L. Tseng
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• A Taxi Driving Fraud Detection System (ICDM 2011)

  • Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Chuanren Liu, Zhi-Hua Zhou
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• Utility-Based Fraud Detection (IJCAI 2011)

  • Luís Torgo, Elsa Lopes
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• A Pattern Discovery Approach to Retail Fraud Detection (KDD 2011)

  • Prasad Gabbur, Sharath Pankanti, Quanfu Fan, Hoang Trinh
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2010

• Hunting for the Black Swan: Risk Mining from Text (ACL 2010)

  • JL Leidner, F Schilder
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• Fraud Detection by Generating Positive Samples for Classification from Unlabeled Data (ACL 2010)

  • Levente Kocsis, Andras George
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2009

• SVM-based Credit Card Fraud Detection with Reject Cost and Class-Dependent Error Cost (PAKDD 2009)

  • En-hui Zheng,Chao Zou,Jian Sun, Le Chen
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• An Approach for Automatic Fraud Detection in the Insurance Domain (AAAI 2009)

  • Alexander Widder, Rainer v. Ammon, Gerit Hagemann, Dirk Schönfeld
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2007

• Relational Data Pre-Processing Techniques for Improved Securities Fraud Detection (KDD 2007)

  • Andrew S. Fast, Lisa Friedland, Marc E. Maier, Brian J. Taylor, David D. Jensen, Henry G. Goldberg, John Komoroske
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• Uncovering Fraud in Direct Marketing Data with a Fraud Auditing Case Builder (PKDD 2007)

  • Fletcher Lu
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• Netprobe: A Fast and Scalable System for Fraud Detection in Online Auction Networks (WWW 2007)

  • Shashank Pandit, Duen Horng Chau, Samuel Wang, Christos Faloutsos
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2006

• Data Mining Approaches to Criminal Career Analysis (ICDM 2006)

  • Jeroen S. De Bruin, Tim K. Cocx, Walter A. Kosters, Jeroen F. J. Laros, Joost N. Kok
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• Large Scale Detection of Irregularities in Accounting Data (ICDM 2006)

  • Stephen Bay, Krishna Kumaraswamy, Markus G. Anderle, Rohit Kumar, David M. Steier
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• Camouflaged Fraud Detection in Domains with Complex Relationships (KDD 2006)

  • Sankar Virdhagriswaran, Gordon Dakin
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• Detecting Fraudulent Personalities in Networks of Online Auctioneers (PKDD 2006)

  • Duen Horng Chau, Shashank Pandit, Christos Faloutsos
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2005

• Technologies to Defeat Fraudulent Schemes Related to Email Requests (AAAI 2005)

  • Edoardo Airoldi, Bradley Malin, and Latanya Sweeney
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• AI Technologies to Defeat Identity Theft Vulnerabilities (AAAI 2005)

  • Latanya Sweeney
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• Detecting Fraud in Health Insurance Data: Learning to Model Incomplete Benford's Law Distributions (ECML 2005)

  • Fletcher Lu, J. Efrim Boritz
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• Using Relational Knowledge Discovery to Prevent Securities Fraud (KDD 2005)

  • Jennifer Neville, Özgür Simsek, David D. Jensen, John Komoroske, Kelly Palmer, Henry G. Goldberg
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2003

• Applying Data Mining in Investigating Money Laundering Crimes (KDD 2003)
  • Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, John J. Salerno, Philip S. Yu
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2000

• Document Classification and Visualisation to Support the Investigation of Suspected Fraud (PKDD 2000)
  • Johan Hagman, Domenico Perrotta, Ralf Steinberger, and Aristi de Varfis
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1999

• Statistical Challenges to Inductive Inference in Linked Data. (AISTATS 1999)
  • David Jensen
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1998

• Toward Scalable Learning with Non-Uniform Class and Cost Distributions: A Case Study in Credit Card Fraud Detection (KDD 1998)

  • Phillip K Chan, Salvatore J Stolfo
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• Call-Based Fraud Detection in Mobile Communication Networks Using a Hierarchical Regime-Switching Model (NIPS 1998)

  • Jaakko Hollmén, Volker Tresp
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1997

• Detection of Mobile Phone Fraud Using Supervised Neural Networks: A First Prototype (ICANN 1997)

  • Yves Moreau, Herman Verrelst, Joos Vandewalle
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• Prospective Assessment of AI Technologies for Fraud Detection: A Case Study (AAAI 1997)

  • David Jensen
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• Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Meta-Learning: Issues and Initial Results (AAAI 1997)

  • Salvatore J. Stolfo, David W. Fan, Wenke Lee and Andreas L. Prodromidis
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1995

• Fraud: Uncollectible Debt Detection Using a Bayesian Network Based Learning System: A Rare Binary Outcome with Mixed Data Structures (UAI 1995)
  • Kazuo J. Ezawa, Til Schuermann
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