Comments on: Improving Automated Fraud Detection

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:42:13 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to add fraud detection to an e-payment framework for developing countries. I’ll some tips on how you built your system. Most developing countries are blacklisted. This makes this system pretty interesting.

Regards,
Henry

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By: Dan Grossman : Midterms

Dan Grossman : Midterms — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:26:25 +0000

[...] I haven’t had anything to write the past week and a half due to midterms at Drexel. I’m taking the most credits a student can register for here, so I have a lot of exams to study for and projects to complete. Luckily I finished some nice automation code for VisitorBoost and TargetedVisitors a few weeks ago which is taking care of processing and approving most orders for me so I don’t have a backlog of 80 to look at when I’m too busy one night to do so. It uses the fraud scoring code I updated in November, along with a couple other factors, to choose what orders to approve automatically and which to hold for manual review. Bookmark and Share: [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:00:25 +0000

It’s written by hand and I’m gradually adding to it as I notice new patterns myself. I do use MaxMind’s GeoLite City database (the free one) to do the IP-to-location lookups which are part of the algorithm. I considered their fraud scoring service but decided it didn’t do enough to be worth the hassle of integrating and paying for when I can write my own.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:06:47 +0000

Are you doing the fraud detection algorithm by hand? Or are you using a commercial product like MaxMind?