EBay users worried about fraud, take heart: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they've invented data mining techniques that can detect online auction fraud before it happens. By looking at trading patterns among thousands of eBay sellers, the researchers say they can identify likely con artists and warn off potential bidders."We want to help people detect potential fraud before the fraud occurs," said research associate Duen Horng Chau, who developed NetProbe with professor Christos Faloutsos, undergraduate student Samuel Wang and graduate student Shashank Pandit.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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