Abstract
Online retail, eCommerce, frequently falls victim to fraud conducted
by malicious customers (fraudsters) who obtain goods or services
through deception. Fraud coordinated by groups of professional
fraudsters that place several fraudulent orders to maximize their
gain is referred to as organized fraud. Existing approaches to fraud
detection typically analyze orders in isolation and they are not
effective at identifying groups of fraudulent orders linked to organized
fraud. These also wrongly identify many legitimate orders as
fraud, which hinders their usage for automated fraud cancellation.
We introduce a novel solution to detect organized fraud by analyzing
orders in bulk. Our approach is based on clustering and aims
to group together fraudulent orders placed by the same group of
fraudsters. It selectively uses two existing techniques, agglomerative
clustering and sampling to recursively group orders into small
clusters in a reasonable amount of time. We assess our clustering
technique on real-world orders placed on the Zalando website, the
largest online apparel retailer in Europe1. Our clustering processes
100,000s of orders in a few hours and groups 35-45% of fraudulent
orders together. We propose a simple technique built on top of our
clustering that detects 26.2% of fraud while raising false alarms for
only 0.1% of legitimate orders.
by malicious customers (fraudsters) who obtain goods or services
through deception. Fraud coordinated by groups of professional
fraudsters that place several fraudulent orders to maximize their
gain is referred to as organized fraud. Existing approaches to fraud
detection typically analyze orders in isolation and they are not
effective at identifying groups of fraudulent orders linked to organized
fraud. These also wrongly identify many legitimate orders as
fraud, which hinders their usage for automated fraud cancellation.
We introduce a novel solution to detect organized fraud by analyzing
orders in bulk. Our approach is based on clustering and aims
to group together fraudulent orders placed by the same group of
fraudsters. It selectively uses two existing techniques, agglomerative
clustering and sampling to recursively group orders into small
clusters in a reasonable amount of time. We assess our clustering
technique on real-world orders placed on the Zalando website, the
largest online apparel retailer in Europe1. Our clustering processes
100,000s of orders in a few hours and groups 35-45% of fraudulent
orders together. We propose a simple technique built on top of our
clustering that detects 26.2% of fraud while raising false alarms for
only 0.1% of legitimate orders.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2019 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’19), December 9–13, 2019, San Juan, PR, USA |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 215–228 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-7628-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | Annual Computer Security Applications Conference - San Juan, Puerto Rico Duration: 9 Dec 2019 → 13 Dec 2019 |
Conference
Conference | Annual Computer Security Applications Conference |
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Abbreviated title | ACSAC |
Country/Territory | Puerto Rico |
City | San Juan |
Period | 09/12/2019 → 13/12/2019 |
Keywords
- online fraud
- fraud detection
- eCommerce
- categorical clustering