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Chapter 7. Can you determine the
characteristics of known and
unknown fraudulent behavior?
This chapter describes the early fraud detection carried out by means of
premium telephone numbers: a telephone provider is charging the telephone
company for calls which never will be paid by the caller. We discuss the method
on how data mining supports the detection of possibly fraudulent calls, and we
present a simple solution of the detection request.
We used an example that has been developed on the IBM business intelligence
demonstration scenario covering “Telecoms fraud detection”, and that is based
on actual GBIS EMEA ...