Empirical analysis of online auction fraud: Credit card phantom transactions

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2991-2999

  Lee, Byungtae ^a   Cho, Hyungjun ^b   Chae, Myungsin ^c   Shim, Seonyoung ^d  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^c Seoul University of Venture and Information   (South Korea)

^d Seoul Women University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Auction fraud detection; Electronic markets and auctions; Online auction fraud

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFICIENT; CREDIT CARDS; DATA COLLECTION; EBUSINESS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FRAUD DETECTION; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; OFFLINE; ONLINE AUCTIONS; ONLINE MARKETS; POTENTIAL USERS; REGULATORY AGENCIES;

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SALES;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 71549163133     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.09.034     Document Type: Article

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