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Raising Fraud Awareness through Web Forums

Authors:
Vrizlynn Thing

Keywords: Fraud detection, fraudulent merchant, fraudulent activity analysis, scam, complaint, forum

Abstract:
Topic specific forums, which contain a vast amount of information can aid in providing very useful and informative advice to their readers. Forums that are specific to scam complaints (and reporting) can also aid in raising public awareness to new scams and fraudulent activities, and provide the support for a more pro-active approach to the early detection and prevention of fraud. Accurate and efficient provision of contents from forum sites are therefore very important, to provide information to aid in preventive measures. In this paper, we acquire data from 6 popular and active scam reporting forums with varying ages (from 1.07 to 9.45 years old). We then carry out an analysis to investigate the ability to extract posts detailing victims’ encounter with scams and fraud, based on the coverage via simple searches on specific keywords and keyword combinations. We also carry out an evaluation of the merchant coverage in each forum and investigate the association of keywords to support future reliable informative data provision from both topic-specific, and generic forums and online sources.

Pages: 216 to 221

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-324-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014