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We introduce the novel problem of benchmarking fraud detectors on private graph-structured data. Currently, many types of fraud are managed in part by automated detection algorithms that operate over graphs. We consider the scenario where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti , Nihar Shah , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Given a set of financial transactions (who buys from whom, when, and for how much), as well as prior information from buyers and sellers, how can we find fraudulent transactions? If we have labels for some transactions for known types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Robson L. F. Cordeiro , Meng-Chieh Lee , Christos Faloutsos

Fraudulent activities on digital banking services are becoming more intricate by the day, challenging existing defenses. While older rule driven methods struggle to keep pace, even precision focused algorithms fall short when new scams are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Karthikeyan V. R. , Premnath S. , Kavinraaj S. , J. Sangeetha

Credit card fraud has been a persistent issue since the last century, causing significant financial losses to the industry. The most effective way to prevent fraud is by contacting customers to verify suspicious transactions. However, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Menghao Huo , Kuan Lu , Qiang Zhu , Zhenrui Chen

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, online payment fraud has become increasingly complex, posing serious threats to financial security and consumer trust. Traditional detection methods often struggle to capture the intricate relational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-15 RuiHan Luo , Nanxi Wang , Xiaotong Zhu

Graph pattern matching algorithms to handle million-scale dynamic graphs are widely used in many applications such as social network analytics and suspicious transaction detections from financial networks. On the other hand, the computation…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Hiroki Kanezashi , Toyotaro Suzumura , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Min-hwan Oh , Satoshi Matsuoka

To detect anomalies in real-world graphs, such as social, email, and financial networks, various approaches have been developed. While they typically assume static input graphs, most real-world graphs grow over time, naturally represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jongha Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin

Many approaches focus on detecting dense blocks in the tensor of multimodal data to prevent fraudulent entities (e.g., accounts, links) from retweet boosting, hashtag hijacking, link advertising, etc. However, no existing method is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yikun Ban , Xin Liu , Yitao Duan , Xue Liu , Wei Xu

Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chunxu Lin , Yumao Xie , Yixiang Fang , Yongmin Hu , Yingqian Hu , Chen Cheng

Payment card fraud causes multibillion dollar losses for banks and merchants worldwide, often fueling complex criminal activities. To address this, many real-time fraud detection systems use tree-based models, demanding complex feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Bernardo Branco , Pedro Abreu , Ana Sofia Gomes , Mariana S. C. Almeida , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

Artificial Intelligence has become a double edged sword in modern society being both a boon and a bane. While it empowers individuals it also enables malicious actors to perpetrate scams such as fraudulent phone calls and user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Gurjot Singh , Prabhjot Singh , Maninder Singh

Nowadays, Graph Fraud Detection (GFD) in financial scenarios has become an urgent research topic to protect online payment security. However, as organized crime groups are becoming more professional in real-world scenarios, fraudsters are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jie Yang , Rui Zhang , Ziyang Cheng , Dawei Cheng , Guang Yang , Bo Wang

Detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks, where each node is associated with both structural connections and descriptive attributes, is essential for identifying fraud, misinformation, and suspicious behavior in domains such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Apu Chakraborty , Anshul Kumar , Gagan Raj Gupta

The landscape of financial transactions has grown increasingly complex due to the expansion of global economic integration and advancements in information technology. This complexity poses greater challenges in detecting and managing…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-09 Dawei Cheng , Yao Zou , Sheng Xiang , Changjun Jiang

Financial crime detection using graph learning improves financial safety and efficiency. However, criminals may commit financial crimes across different institutions to avoid detection, which increases the difficulty of detection for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zhirui Pan , Guangzhong Wang , Zhaoning Li , Lifeng Chen , Yang Bian , Zhongyuan Lai

Many machine learning methods have been proposed to achieve accurate transaction fraud detection, which is essential to the financial security of individuals and banks. However, most existing methods leverage original features only or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yue Tian , Guanjun Liu , Jiacun Wang , Mengchu Zhou

At online retail platforms, detecting fraudulent accounts and transactions is crucial to improve customer experience, minimize loss, and avoid unauthorized transactions. Despite the variety of different models for deep learning on graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Susie Xi Rao , Clémence Lanfranchi , Shuai Zhang , Zhichao Han , Zitao Zhang , Wei Min , Mo Cheng , Yinan Shan , Yang Zhao , Ce Zhang

Many algorithms have been proposed in the last ten years for the discovery of dynamic communities. However, these methods are seldom compared between themselves. In this article, we propose a generator of dynamic graphs with planted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Remy Cazabet , Souaad Boudebza , Giulio Rossetti

This study investigates fraud detection in ride hailing platforms through Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),focusing on the effectiveness of various models. By analyzing prevalent fraudulent activities, the research highlights and compares the…

Money launderers exploit the weaknesses in detection systems by purposefully placing their ill-gotten money into multiple accounts, at different banks. That money is then layered and moved around among mule accounts to obscure the origin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haseeb Tariq , Marwan Hassani