Fraud is a significant problem in many industries, such as banking, insurance, telecommunication, and public service. Detecting and preventing fraud is difficult, because fraudsters develop new schemes all the time, and the schemes grow more and more sophisticated to elude easy detection. Many organizations have implemented fraud detection and prevention systems based on SAS data mining to help...

One of the management measures to reduce tax liabilities is non-payment of taxes through tax fraud. Because personality factors may play a role in explaining tax ethics, examining personality traits and aspects of tax fraud can help to better understand the factors that influence tax decisions. The main purpose of this study is to provide a model for detecting tax fraud based on the personality...

This paper illustrates an automated system that replicates the investigative operation of human fraud auditors. Human fraud auditors often utilize fraud detection methods that exploit structure in database tables to uncover outliers that may be part of a fraud case. From the uncovered outliers, an auditor will build a case of fraud by searching data related to the outlier possibly across many d...

Fraud is an adaptive crime; special methods of data gathering and analysis are required to combat fraud issues as criminals often quest for dubious techniques to evade detection. Radial basis function (RBF) network, was used to build base models that identifies and detect the risk of fraud in transactions. At first, it is imperative to isolate the basic factors that are predictive of fraud occu...

— With the developments in the Information Technology and improvements in the communication channels, fraud is spreading all over the world, resulting in huge financial losses. Though fraud prevention mechanisms such as CHIP&PIN are developed, these mechanisms do not prevent the most common fraud types such as fraudulent credit card usages over virtual POS terminals or mail orders. As a result,...

The number of Internet auction shoppers is rapidly growing. However, online auction customers may suffer from auction fraud, sometimes without even noticing it. In-auction fraud differs from preand post-auction fraud in that it happens in the bidding period of an active auction. Since the in-auction fraud strategies are subtle and complex, it makes the fraudulent behavior more difficult to disc...

With the rise and swift growth of E-Commerce, credit card uses for online purchases has increased dramatically and it caused sudden outbreak in the credit card fraud. Fraud is one of the major ethical issues in the credit card industry. With both online as well as regular purchase, credit card becomes the most popular mode of payment with cases of fraud associated with it are also increasing. A...

Fraud is widespread and very costly to the healthcare insurance system. Fraud involves intentional deception or misrepresentation intended to result in an unauthorized benefit. It is shocking because the incidence of health insurance fraud keeps increasing every year. In order to detect and avoid the fraud, data mining techniques are applied. Frauds blow a hole in the insurance industry. Health...