Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning & Data Science

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Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning & Data Science
Ishika Sharma1 Shivjyoti Dalai2, Venktesh Tiwari3, Ishwari Singh 4, Seema Kharb5
1,2,3 Students, Computer Science Engineering, SRM University, Sonipat
4Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, SRM University, Haryana,
5Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, SRM University, Haryana, India
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Abstract - A method for 'Credit Card Fraud Detection' is
created in this study. As the number of scammers grows every
day. Credit cards are used for fraudulent transactions, and
there are several sorts of fraud. As a result, various techniques
such as Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Naive Bayes
are utilized to tackle this problem. This transaction is
evaluated individually, and whateverworksbestiscarried out.
The primary purpose is to detect fraud by filtering the
aforementioned strategies in order to achieve a better
outcome.
Key Words: Credit Card, Fraud Detection,RandomForest,
Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression.
1. INTRODUCTION
Credit card fraud is a broad word for theft and fraud
perpetrated using or utilizing a credit card at the moment of
payment. The goal may be to buy something without paying
for it or withdraw money from an account without
permission. Identity theft is often accompanied by credit
card fraud. According to the Federal Trade Commission of
the United States, the rate of identity theft remained steady
during the mid-2000s, but it jumped by 21% in 2008. Even
though credit card fraud, the crime most people connect
with ID theft, fell to a fraction of total ID theft complaints in
2000, roughly 10 million transactions, or one out of every
1300, were fraudulent. In addition, 0.05 percent (5 out of
10,000) of all monthly active accounts were fake. Today,
fraud detection systems keep track of a twelfth of one
percent of all transactions performed, resulting in billions of
dollars in losses. Credit card fraud is one of the most serious
issues facing businesses today. However, to successfully
detect fraud, it is necessary first to comprehend the
processes of fraud execution. Fraudsters use a variety of
methods to perpetrate credit cardfraud.CreditCardFraudis
described as "when an individual uses another person's
credit card for personal reasons while the card owner and
the card issuer are unaware that the card is being used."
Theft of the actual card or the critical data linked with the
account, such as the card account number or other
information that must be given to a merchant during a valid
transaction, is where card fraud begins. Card numbers,
usually the Primary Account Number (PAN), are often
reproduced on the card, and the data is stored in machine-
readable format on a magnetic stripe on the reverse.
2. METHODOLOGY
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A. Data Collection
The data-gathering phase is the first step in the project; this
dataset comprises a collectionoftransactions,someofwhich
are real and others are fraudulent. The data-gatheringphase
is the first step in the project; this dataset includes a
collection of transactions, some of which are real and others
that are fraudulent. The data-gatheringphaseisthefirststep
in the project; this dataset comprises a collection of
transactions, some of which are real and others are
fraudulent.
B. Credit Card Dataset
A credit card transaction data set was gathered via Kaggle,
and it comprises a total of 2,84,808 credit card transactions
from a European bank. It divides transactions into "positive
class" and "negative class." The data set is highly skewed,
with roughly 0.172 percent of transactions being fraudulent
and the remainder being legitimate; this indicates that just
492 of the 2,84,808 transactions are fraudulent, and the rest
are genuine ones. So, we oversampled to balance the data
set, resulting in 60% of fraud transactions and 40% genuine
ones.
C. Preprocessing of Dataset
Selected data is formatted, cleaned, and sampled in this
module. The following are some of the data pre-processing
steps:
a) Formatting: The chosen data might not be in the correct
format. We may prefer data in a file format over a relational
database or vice versa.
b) Cleaning is the process of removing or correcting missing
data. The dataset may contain recordsthat areincompleteor
have null values. Such records must be deleted.
c) Sampling: The class distribution in credit card
transactions is uneven because the number of frauds in the
dataset is fewer than the total number of transactions. As a

result, the sampling approach is utilized to tackle this
problem.
D. Loading of Dataset
The dataset is loaded after it has been pre-processed.
Various library functions can be used to load the dataset. In
this case, we used the read CSV method of Python's Pandas
library to load a dataset in CSV or Microsoft Excel format; in
terms of python, it is called a DATAFRAME. dataset =
pd.read_csv('creditcard.csv')
E. Splitting of Dataset
To compensate for the dataset's imbalance, we used the
ADASYN oversampling technique, which oversamples both
the number of fraudulent and genuine transactions to a
specific number, resulting in a positive and negative range
that is nearly equal. After the dataset is oversampled, the
samples are split into Train and Test data. A suitable ratio is
to be performed for the model (Usually, 70% for Train data
and 30% for Test data are chosen, anyone can choose their
ration). The train dataset can be further split into train data
and validation data.
F. Building Model
After the data has been split into train and test data which is
70% and 30%, respectively, the training data is now utilized
for the model building. The dataset contains 31 features,out
of which 30 features or columns are the independent
features, and the last column called the CLASS column, is the
dependent feature. So here, the dataset is split into four
categories: xtrain, ytrain, xtest, and ytest, representing
independent training features, dependent training features,
independent test features, and dependent test features.
G. Algorithms
a) Logistic Regression -Regression is a regression model
that analyses therelationshipbetweenmultipleindependent
variables and has a categorical dependent variable. There
are many different logistic regression models, including
binary, multiple, and binomial logistic models. The Binary
Logistic Regression model calculates the likelihood of a
binary response based on one or more predictors.
Fig 1- Logistic Regression expression
The above equation represents the logistic regression in
mathematical form.
b) Random Forest - Random Forest can be used to rank the
importance of variables in a regression or classification
problem in a natural way. Random forest is a tree-based
algorithm that createsseveral treesandcombinesthe results
to improve the model's generalization ability. An ensemble
method is a technique for combining trees. Ensembling is
nothing more than putting togethera groupofweak learners
(individual trees) to create a stronglearner.RandomForests
can be used to solve problems involving regression and
classification. The dependent variable in regression
problems is continuous. The dependent variable in
classification problems is categorical.
Fig 2- Random Forest expression
c) Naïve Bayes - A Bayesian classifier is a statistical method
that uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability that a
feature belongs to a specific class. It is referred to as naive
because it assumes that the possibilities of individual
components are independent of one another, which is
extremely unlikely to occur inthereal world.Theprobability
of an event occurring is calculated by considering the
likelihood of another event occurring. It's possibletowriteit
as:
Fig 3- Naïve Bayes expression
Where the posterior probability of target class c P(c|X) is
calculated from P(c), P(X|c), and P(X).
H. Training of Model
After building the model, the model is trained using Train
data and validation data. The model is trained using the
library function fit () function.
I. Evaluating the Model The model can be evaluated by using
various metrics. These are
a) Interpreting Loss and Validationloss -Lossistheresult
of a bad prediction. A loss is a number indicating how bad
the model's prediction was on a single example. Loss can be
validation loss and training loss.
b) Interpreting Accuracy and Validation Accuracy -
Validation accuracy and accuracy need to be converged in a
good model.
c) Confusion Matrix - A confusion matrix summarizes
classification problem prediction results. The correct and

incorrect predictions are totaled and broken down by class
using count values. The confusion matrix's key is this. The
confusion matrix depicts the various ways in which your
classification model becomes perplexed when making
predictions. It reveals the number of errors made by a
classifier and the types of errors made.
Here,
•Class 1: Positive
•Class 2: Negative Classification Rate/ Accuracy
Classification Rate or Accuracy is given by the relation:
Fig 4- Accuracy Expression
Recall - Recall can be defined as the ratio of the total number
of correctly classified positive examples divided by the total
number of positive examples. High Recall indicates the class
is correctly recognized (a small number of FN).
Fig 5- Recall Expression
Precision - To get the precision value, we divide the total
number of correctly classified positive examples by thetotal
number of predicted positive examples. High precision
indicates that an example labeled as positive is positive (a
small number of FP).
Fig 6- Precision Expression
J. Saving the Model
After building the model, the model is saved to our device.
The model can be saved in .pkl format or .h5 format. To save
the model in .pkl format, python provides usa librarynamed
Pickle, and to save it in .h5 format, the Tensorflow library is
used. I have used the Pickle library and saved the models in
.pkl format.
3. MODEL AND ANALYSIS
Fig 8- RandomForest Classifier
Fig 9: Naïve Bayes model
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The accuracy results we got from the three algorithms are
shown in the following table below.
Table- Accuracy Results
Fig 7- Logistic Regression

Training vs. Test Data in Dataset
Fig 10- Training vs. Test Data
Normal vs. Fraud Transaction after Oversampling
Fig 11- Fraudulent vs. non-Fraudulent
Correlation matrix
Fig12- Correlation Matrix
4. CONCLUSIONS
Various machine learning algorithms for detecting fraud in
credit card transactions were reviewed in this paper. The
accuracy, precision, and specificity metrics are used to
evaluate the performance of this technique. To classify the
transaction as fraudulent or authorized, I used three
supervised learning techniques: Logistic Regression,
Random Forest, and Naive Bayes. Using feedback and
delayed supervised training, these classifiers were trained
on a delayed supervised sample dataset of almost 284807
transaction records. Due to the massive imbalance, the
dataset was subjected to an Oversampling technique, which
resulted in the number of fraud and normal transactions
being nearly equal. The training and test data were tested
using the three Models, and the results were obtained. The
accuracy of the Random Forest, Logistic Regression, and
Naive Bayes was 99.27%, 91.20%, and89.40%, respectively.
From the Above project, itcanbeconcludedthattheRandom
Forest model is somewhat trustworthy, and its accuracy
could be improved further with a larger and more balanced
dataset. If some other algorithms can be combined with this
one to form a Hybrid Algorithm, the results will be even
better.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The success and outcome of this project required a lot of
guidance and assistance from many people, and we are
highly privileged to have got this all along with the
completion of our project. All that we have done is only due
to such supervision and assistance, and we will not forget to
thank them.
We are extremely grateful to Dr. Paramjit S. Jaswal, Vice-
Chancellor, SRM University, and Dr.PuneetGoswami,Head
of the Department, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, for providing all the required resources for the
completion of my seminar.
Our heartfelt gratitude to our guide Dr. Ishwari Singh, for
their valuable suggestion and guidance in preparing the
research paper. Last but not least, we would express our
obligation to all the people who have worked extensively on
the topic and make the content available for free to all the
aspiring people who want to grow in their community. I
would say this report can be helpful to any aspiring student
who wants to gain an overall idea about how high-
performance computing works in practical life.
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