Tag: fraud
Dec 3, 2018 |
Money transfers are a rich target for fraudsters, who have devised all sorts of creative ways to steal the funds. But thanks to a sophisticated machine learning system running atop a large Hadoop cluster, Western Union has taken a sizable bite out of the criminals’ Read more…
Nov 12, 2018 |
Be prepared for a heavy dose of deep learning if you’re on the floor of the Supercomputing 2018 show this week in Dallas, Texas, where the scientific community will demonstrate how neural network-powered AI applications are bolstering research in areas like climatology, geology, genomics, and even particle physics. Read more…
Nov 13, 2017 |
The news isn’t the only thing being faked these days. Thanks to cutting edge machine learning techniques, it’s easier than ever for people to generate counterfeit videos, audio recordings, and signatures. Read more…
May 3, 2016 |
As overseers of our digitized marketplaces, credit card companies have a bird’s eye view of what we buy. If you want to know what American consumers are interested in, there’s perhaps no better way that to examine their purchase histories, so it’s no wonder that credit card companies, such as American Express, Capital One, JP Chase Morgan, and Citibank are at the forefront of big data mining. Read more…
Dec 21, 2015 |
Everybody loves Christmas–especially the fraudsters who cloak their criminal schemes in holly, tinsel, and the rush for last-minute gifts. For the folks at ecommerce fulfillment giant eBay Enterprise, keeping the fraudsters away has involved a judicious application of big data tech. Read more…
Apr 3, 2014 |Traditionally, advertisers have accepted fraud as a cost of doing business on the Web because the volume of fake traffic generated by bots and malware was too great to do anything about. But recent advances in big data analytics are giving ad buyers and other companies new tools to detect "garbage traffic" and other unethical schemes, such as cookie stuffing, and to reclaim ad revenue previously lost to fraud. Read more…
Jan 13, 2014 |The call came in just as Sheila B. started her shift at the bank's call center. The customer sounded distressed. He was having money problems, he said, and he needed to tap his home equity line of credit. Even though he'd forgotten his account number and PIN, he knew his social security number, so Sheila B. completed the $50,000 transfer as requested. A day later, she learned she'd been duped by a sophisticated ring of fraudsters operating out of Slovenia, but by then the money was gone. Read more…
