Introduction to Fraud Detection

Fraud occurs in the following areas:

• Credit Card Fraud
• Internet Transaction Fraud / E-Cash fraud
• Insurance Fraud and Health Care Fraud
• Money Laundering
• Intrusion into computers or computernetworks
• Telecommunications Fraud
• Voice Over IP (VOIP) Fraud
• Subscription Fraud / Identity Theft

The task is similar in all these areas: The fraud cases have to be detected on the basis of the available data that is produced by the behaviour of the customers and fraudsters.

• The National Fraud Information Center.
• Business.com. Auditing and Fraud.
• South African Institute for Corporate Fraud Management.
• Alexey Rasskazov's introduction

• Steven W. Klebe. Evaluating Online Credit Fraud Fraud With Artificial Intelligence.
• Brian Frenkel. Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Fraud In Credit Cards.
• John G. Faughnan. International Credit Card/Check Card Fraud with Small Charges.
• California Bankers Association. CBA 1994 Fraud Survey.
• The National Check Fraud Center.
• ?????? Credit Card Fraud Issues.
• Business Week Online. New Software Aims to Cut Terrorists' Cash.

• Michael Pastore. Online Fraud: An E-Commerce Image Problem.
• Internet ScamBusters.
• Steven W. Klebe. Evaluating Online Credit Fraud Fraud With Artificial Intelligence.
• Miguel Helft. The Real Victims of Fraud.
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC).

• Stephen Barrett. Insurance Fraud and Abuse: A Very Serious Problem.
• Roger Whiddon, Society of Insurance Research. Methods of Insurance Fraud Detection: Advantages and Disadvantages.
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana. Help Us Stop Fraud.
• Lewis Morris, Gary W. Thompson. Reflections on the Government's Stick and Carrot Approach to Fighting Health Care Fraud.
• ChoicePoint. Decisions That Matter.
• Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.
• National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA).
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Fighting Fraud and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
• Nebraska Department of Insurance, Insurance Fraud Prevention Division. Hints for Insurance Fraud Detection.

• Report of the U. S. Office of Technology Assesment.
• Otis Port. New Software Aims to Cut Terrorists' Cash Business Week Online.

• COAST's Intrusion Detection Pages.
• Aurobindo Sundaram. An Introduction to Intrusion Detection.
• SRI International's Intrusion Detection Home Page.
• "InfoSec and InfoWar Portal".

• Communications Fraud Control Association.
• Mark Johnson. Future Frauds; Telecom fraud in Next Generation Services.
• Mike Speight. Developing an Effective Strategy To Maximize Business Value.
• Steve Ormesher The Fraud Potential of Prepaid Services.
• Jack Wraith. A Century of Telecoms Fraud Or It's Not "Who is calling?" It's "Who is paying?".
• Lord McNair, Dennis Walters, Jeffrey Hodgson. Breaking the Back of Telephone Fraud.
• BTexact Technologies. Christmas is coming, the fraudster could get fat.
• Nortel Networks Fraud Solutions. An Introduction to Telecommunications Fraud.
• Ericsson. Categorising Telecommunications Fraud.
• Bell Atlantic: Outfox phone fraud.
• Introduction by the Statistics group at Lucent Technologies: Why Do We Work on Fraud?.
• Communications Fraud Control Association.
• New Phone Fraud Statistics (1996)
• David West. Battle Tactics - Fighting Fraud with Common Sense. Telecom Business Magazine, July 2000.
• David West. Fraud Management: A Strategic Perspective. ECTA Review 2001
• Deborah Young. Worst-Case Security Planning. In: Wireless Review, Nov 1, 2001.
• Deborah Young. Detection Connection. In: Wireless Review, Aug 15, 2001.
• CGI Telephony Fraud
• mea culpa (jericho@dimensional.com). [ISN] Toll Fraud - The Crime of the 90's.

• Siemens, UK. Fraud Management Guide.
• Federal Communications Commission. Telephone Toll Fraud and Your Business.
• David Bikle (AT&T), Al Chu (AT&T). New toll fraud trend: small companies targeted by hackers

• Carolyn Schuck. VoIP Fraud: The Industry's Best-Kept Secret.
• CaveBear Blog. Yet Another Kind of Internet Thievery (YAKOIT).
• Jay Thomas. Fraud Lessons: VoIP Carriers Relearn.

• Lawrence W. Crow. Man Charged With 139 Counts of Cellular Telephone Subscription Fraud.
• U.S. Government's Central Website for Information about Identity Theft
• Mari J. Frank. Identity Theft
• Erik Milstone. Subscription Fraud Looms.
• The Scotsman. Caught in the net of all the evil which lurks on the worldwide web