Online Fraud Detection
Online Fraud Detection
Recent research has shown that machine learning techniques have been
applied very effectively to the problem of payments related fraud detection.
Such ML based techniques have the potential to evolve and detect
previously unseen patterns of fraud. In this project, we apply multiple ML
techniques based on Logistic regression and Support Vector Machine to the
problem of payments fraud detection using labeled dataset containing
payment transactions. We show that our proposed approaches are able to
detect fraud transactions with high accuracy and reasonably low number of
false positives.
Introduction
Machine learning
Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and static models that
computer system use in order to perform a specific task effectively without Using
the explicit instruction ,relaying on patterns and interface instead .
Machine learning algorithms are used in Email filtering , face recognition ,house
pricing prediction,etc.
Types of Machine learning algorithm
Supervised learning
The system prevents Fraudulent users from misusing the details of online
payment of the genuine users for their personal gain.
In fraud detection, we often deal with highly imbalanced datasets. For the chosen
dataset , we show that our proposed approaches are able to detect fraud
transactions with very high accuracy and low false positives – especially for
TRANSFER transactions.
Fraud detection often involves a trade off between correctly detecting fraudulent
samples and not misclassifying many non-fraud samples. This is often a design
choice/business decision which every digital payments company needs to mak
e .We’ve dealt with this problem by proposing our class weight based approach.
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