Fraud detection is an increasingly important and difficult task in today’s technological environment. As consumers are putting more of their personal information online and transacting much more business over computers, the potential for losses from fraud is in the billions of dollars, not to mention the damage done by identity theft. This paper reviews the history of fraud detection at AT&T, o...

Addressing tax fraud has been taken increasingly seriously, but most attempts to uncover it involve the use of human fraud experts to identify and audit suspicious cases. To identify such cases, they come up with patterns which an IT team then implements to extract matching instances. The process, starting from the communication of the patterns to the developers, the debugging of the implemente...

Given the widespread and deep economic-social consequences of accounting fraud in micro and macro levels of society and the effectiveness of whistleblowing in their discovery and the effect of demographic characteristics on moral behavior as whistleblowing, this study aimed to examine the whistleblowing intentions for accounting fraud including account manipulation and embezzlement based on dem...

Online auction sites are a target for fraud due to their anonymity, number of potential targets and low likelihood of identification. Researchers have developed methods for identifying fraud. However, these methods must be individually tailored for each type of fraud, since each differs in the characteristics important for their identification. Using supervised learning methods, it is possible ...

The illegal use of gutter oil (GO) as cooking is a serious food fraud problem in China and has raised widespread concerns. With the popular internet, Koubei, ordering app, launched campaign that every restaurant could pledge on platform it GO free. This paper evaluates whether consumers value GO-free feature reflected their willingness-to-pay (WTP) to claim. Results show claim receives positive...

Online auction fraud is the most common complaint according to Internet Crime and Complaint Center. Despite that, there are not many published empirical studies about fraud occurrence in online auction sites, and the existing ones mostly target eBay. This lack of research is even worse in Latin American countries. In this paper we present the results of an exploratory research on fraud occurren...

In the year 2009 several data privacy scandals have hit the headlines where major corporations had a legitimate need for detecting fraud conducted by their own employees, but chose inappropriate measures for data screening. This contribution presents architectures and pseudonymization technology for privacy compliant fraud screening or fraud detection, in order to reduce the number of undiscove...

Although computer fraud continues to be a thorn in the side of many organizations, fresh perspectives to addressing this type of crime are rare. This paper advances a preventive approach which reduces those criminal opportunities that permit computer fraud to take place. The construction of crime specific opportunity structures, which enable the relevant parties to conceptualize the fraud envir...

Since the evolution of the internet, many small and large companies have moved their businesses to the internet to provide services to customers worldwide. Cyber credit‐card fraud or no card present fraud is increasingly rampant in the recent years for the reason that the credit‐card i s majorly used to request payments by these companies on the internet. Therefore the need to ensure secured tr...

Previous studies have shown that organically produced food has lower risks of pesticide contamination than food that is not organically produced. However, organically produced food is not entirely free of pesticide residues. A large, high-quality U.S. Department of Agriculture database reports pesticide residues in several dozen organic and conventionally grown foods on an annual basis, and sup...