Fraud is fraud

How Pervasive Is Corporate Fraud?

We estimate what percentage of firms engage in fraud and the economic cost of fraud. Our estimates are based on detected frauds, and frauds that we infer are started but are not caught. To identify the ‘iceberg’ of undetected fraud we take advantage of an exogenous shock to the incentives for fraud detection: Arthur Andersen’s demise, which forces companies to change auditors. By assuming that ...

Why is research fraud wrong?

Fraud Analytics: a Survey on Bank Fraud and Fraud Prediction Using Unsupervised Learning Based Approach

Fraud in banks has been steadily growing over the past years and is a challenge to banks worldwide. The complexity involved in detection of such fraudulent activities further adds to the problem. A thorough examination of fraud and its possibilities is necessary to pinpoint and distinguish the few fraudulent cases within the vast volumes of banking data. In this paper we have discussed various ...

Click Fraud

T oday, Web search engines are the primary method for millions of users throughout the world to access information on a topic, navigate to Web sites, keep up with the news, and shop online. Most major search engines generate revenue via sponsored search, a process whereby content providers pay for traffic from specific links the search engine's display in response to user queries. Search engine...

Advertising Fraud

Over the last decade, online advertising has become a major component of the Web, leading to large annual revenues (e.g., $26.04 billion in US in 2010 [4]). Internet advertising is a very successful form of advertising as it provides an easy and effective way for advertisements to be targeted to individual users’ interests. Unfortunately, fraudsters were able to exploit several vulnerabilities ...