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Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Autoencoders

Fraud management has been known to be a very painful problem for banking and finance firms. Card-related frauds have proven to be especially difficult for firms to combat. Technologies such as chip and PIN are available and are already used by most credit card system vendors, such as Visa and MasterCard. However, the available technology is unable to curtail 100% of credit card fraud. Unfortunately, scammers come up with newer ways of phishing to obtain passwords from credit card users. Also, devices such as skimmers make stealing credit card data a cake walk!

Despite the availability of some technical abilities to combat credit card fraud, The Nilson Report, a leading publication covering payment ...