System and method for systematic detection of fraud rings

摘要

The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a system, and method for detecting fraud rings. The system gathers a small group of highly likely fraudsters. The system then looks for groups of these likely fraudsters who are interconnected. When the interconnections are strong, these groups are likely to be fraud rings. Once fraud rings are detected, the links can be applied to better prevent fraud and to help in criminal investigations.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
an events database comprising a plurality of events comprising at least fraudulent events; an identity resolution module comprising an identity resolution machine adapted to assign a specific person, represented by a PIN number, to a plurality of events in said events database, and sorts the events by the resulting PIN numbers for output to the fraud database, and configured to assign a person number to at least one of the plurality of events; a fraud database comprising people linked to the fraudulent events; a false positive database comprising identity information that should not be included in linking people; a search module that searches for matches between the identity information in the false positive database and the identity information of the people linked to the fraudulent events; and a fraud ring database comprising subgroups of connected fraudulent people connected by links, wherein the links are based on matching identity information, comprising a list of a plurality of discovered fraud rings.