Detecting fake escrow websites using rich fraud cues and kernel based methods

WITS 2007 - Proceedings, 17th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 55-60

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet fraud; Kernel based methods; Online escrow services; Website classification

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EQUIPMENT TESTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS; COMPOSITE KERNELS; ESCROW SERVICES; INTERNET FRAUD; KERNEL BASED METHODS; LINK INFORMATIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ALGORITHMS; WEB BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 70350302573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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