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Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

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An Insight Into Advance Fee Fraud On The Internet, Joshua Chang Jan 2006

An Insight Into Advance Fee Fraud On The Internet, Joshua Chang

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Advance fee fraud on the Internet currently rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars golbally per year. Aslo known as the "419" fraud, this scheme originated from Nigeria in the 1970s and was marketed via traditional means such as mail and facsimile transmissions.


Experience Based Reasoning For Recognising Fraud And Deception, Zhaohao Sun, G. Finnie Dec 2004

Experience Based Reasoning For Recognising Fraud And Deception, Zhaohao Sun, G. Finnie

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Fraud, deception and their recognition have received increasing attention in multiagent systems (MAS), e-commerce, and agent societies. However, little attention has been given to the theoretical foundation for fraud and deception from a logical viewpoint. We fill this gap by arguing that experience-based reasoning (EBR) is a logical foundation for recognizing fraud and deception. It provides a logical analysis of deception, which classifies recognition of deception into knowledge-based deception recognition, inference-based deception recognition, and hybrid deception recognition. It will examine the relationship between EBR and fraud as well as deception. It uses EBR to recognize fraud and deception in e-commerce …