Credit card

As electronic commerce has gained widespread popularity, payments made for users' transactions through credit cards also gained an equal amount of reputation. Whenever shopping through the web is made, the chance for the occurrence of fraudulent activities are escalating. In this paper, we have proposed a three-phase scheme to detect fraudulent activities. A profile for the card users based on their behavior is created by employing a machine learning technique in the second phase extraction of a precise communicative pattern for the card users depending upon the accumulated transactions and the user's earlier transactions. A collection of classifiers are then trained based on all behavioral pattern. The trained collection of classifiers are then used to detect the fraudulent online activities that occurred. If an emerging transaction is fraudulent, feedback is taken, which resolves the drift's difficulty in the notion. Experiments performed indicated that the proposed scheme works better than other schemes.

Relying on the Area Under the Curve (AUC) measure, we compare the performance of the Logit regression model and the LightGBM algorithm. Despite these methods being common in the literature, our study emphasizes the role of statistical inference to evaluate and compare the results comprehensively. We use the training set of the Vesta (2018) dataset, provided by Vesta—a global fraud prevention company headquartered in the United States specializing in payment solutions and risk management. Originally released as part of a Kaggle competition focused on credit card fraud detection, this dataset comprises diverse transaction records, representing a rich source for exploring advanced fraud detection methods. Our analysis reveals that while the LightGBM algorithm generally yields higher predictive accuracy, the differences between the calculated AUCs of the two methods are not statistically significant. This underscores the importance of using inferential techniques to validate model performance differences in fraud detection.