A comparison of fraud cues and classification methods for fake escrow website detection

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 83-101

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraud cues; Internet fraud; Machine learning; Online escrow services; Website classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349154502     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-009-0059-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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