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Phishing attacks remain among the most prevalent cybersecurity threats, causing significant financial losses for individuals and organizations worldwide. This paper presents a machine learning-based phishing email detection system that…

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The application of machine learning to support the processing of large datasets holds promise in many industries, including financial services. However, practical issues for the full adoption of machine learning remain with the focus being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ismini Psychoula , Andreas Gutmann , Pradip Mainali , S. H. Lee , Paul Dunphy , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

What do pickles and trampolines have in common? In this paper we show that while purchases for these products may seem innocuous, they risk revealing clues about customers' personal attributes - in this case, their race. As online retail…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Alex Berke , Kent Larson , Sandy Pentland , Dana Calacci

This systematic literature review examines the role of machine learning in fraud detection within digital banking, synthesizing evidence from 118 peer-reviewed studies and institutional reports. Following the PRISMA guidelines, the review…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Md Zahin Hossain George , Md Khorshed Alam , Md Tarek Hasan

With the growth of the Internet, buying habits have changed, and customers have become more dependent on the online opinions of other customers to guide their purchases. Identifying fake reviews thus became an important area for Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ming Liu , Massimo Poesio

The e-commerce share in the global retail spend is showing a steady increase over the years indicating an evident shift of consumer attention from bricks and mortar to clicks in retail sector. In recent years, online marketplaces have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Shini Renjith

This survey paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and contemporary landscape of recommendation systems, which have been extensively incorporated across a myriad of web applications. It delves into the progression of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ziyuan Xia , Anchen Sun , Jingyi Xu , Yuanzhe Peng , Rui Ma , Minghui Cheng

With growing credit card transaction volumes, the fraud percentages are also rising, including overhead costs for institutions to combat and compensate victims. The use of machine learning into the financial sector permits more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Sugandika Samarakoon

Product reviews are extremely valuable for online shoppers in providing purchase decisions. Driven by immense profit incentives, fraudsters deliberately fabricate untruthful reviews to distort the reputation of online products. As online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Zhuo Wang , Runlong Hu , Qian Chen , Pei Gao , Xiaowei Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained prominence in various applications, including security. This paper explores the utility of LLMs in scam detection, a critical aspect of cybersecurity. Unlike traditional applications, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Liming Jiang

Web spam is a big challenge for quality of search engine results. It is very important for search engines to detect web spam accurately. In this paper we present 32 low cost quality factors to classify spam and ham pages on real time basis.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Ashish Chandra , Mohammad Suaib , Dr. Rizwan Beg

Online consumer reviews reflect the testimonials of real people, unlike advertisements. As such, they have critical impact on potential consumers, and indirectly on businesses. According to a Harvard study (Luca 2011), +1 rise in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Junting Ye , Santhosh Kumar , Leman Akoglu

Mislabeled data is a pervasive issue that undermines the performance of machine learning systems in real-world applications. An effective approach to mitigate this problem is to detect mislabeled instances and subject them to special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Ilies Chibane , Thomas George , Pierre Nodet , Vincent Lemaire

Recommender models are hard to evaluate, particularly under offline setting. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and critical analysis of the data leakage issue in recommender system offline evaluation. Data leakage is caused by not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yitong Ji , Aixin Sun , Jie Zhang , Chenliang Li

Context: Machine Learning (ML) is integrated into a growing number of systems for various applications. Because the performance of an ML model is highly dependent on the quality of the data it has been trained on, there is a growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Pierre-Olivier Côté , Amin Nikanjam , Nafisa Ahmed , Dmytro Humeniuk , Foutse Khomh

Anomalies in emails such as phishing and spam present major security risks such as the loss of privacy, money, and brand reputation to both individuals and organizations. Previous studies on email anomaly detection relied on a single type…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Craig Beaman , Haruna Isah

Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular methods used to identify and block spam, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-01 Dominik Schatzmann , Martin Burkhart , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

With the rise of sophisticated scam websites that exploit human psychological vulnerabilities, distinguishing between legitimate and scam websites has become increasingly challenging. This paper presents ScamFerret, an innovative agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Hiroki Nakano , Takashi Koide , Daiki Chiba

Accurate and complete product descriptions are crucial for e-commerce, yet seller-provided information often falls short. Customer reviews offer valuable details but are laborious to sift through manually. We present PRAISE: Product Review…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Adnan Qidwai , Srija Mukhopadhyay , Prerana Khatiwada , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

The web is loaded with textual content, and Natural Language Processing is a standout amongst the most vital fields in Machine Learning. But when data is huge simple Machine Learning algorithms are not able to handle it and that is when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Debadri Dutta