Title
Guilt-by-Constellation: Fraud Detection by Suspicious Clique Memberships
Abstract
Given a labeled graph containing fraudulent and legitimate nodes, which nodes group together? How can we use the riskiness of node groups to infer a future label for new members of a group? This paper focuses on social security fraud where companies are linked to the resources they use and share. The primary goal in social security fraud is to detect companies that intentionally fail to pay their contributions to the government. We aim to detect fraudulent companies by (1) propagating a time-dependent exposure score for each node based on its relationships to known fraud in the network, (2) deriving cliques of companies and resources, and labeling these cliques in terms of their fraud and bankruptcy involvement, and (3) characterizing each company using a combination of intrinsic and relational features and its membership in suspicious cliques. We show that clique-based features boost the performance of traditional relational models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/HICSS.2015.114
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
fraud detection,public finance,bankruptcy involvement,cliques,organisational aspects,fraudulent node,legitimate node,bipartite graphs,fraudulent company,fraud,guilt-by-constellation,government contribution,graph theory,network analysis,social security fraud,labeled graph,bankruptcy,suspicious clique membership,clustering,vectors,security,bipartite graph,symmetric matrices,government,feature extraction
Clique,Computer science,Computer security,Constellation,Bankruptcy,Social security,Network analysis,Cluster analysis,Instrumental and intrinsic value,Government
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1605
6
0.59
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Véronique Van Vlasselaer1654.35
Leman Akoglu2149871.55
Tina Eliassi-Rad31597108.63
M. Snoeck419012.00
Bart Baesens52511145.52