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Researchers develop software tool to combat Internet auction fraud
12-10-2006, 10:32 AM,
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Researchers develop software tool to combat Internet auction fraud
Quote:Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using an old adage to develop anti-fraud software for Internet auction sites like eBay: It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Sites like eBay rely on users to warn others if they have a bad experience with a seller by rating their transactions. But the CMU researchers said savvy fraudsters get around that by conducting transactions with friends or even themselves, using alternate user names to give themselves high satisfaction ratings - so unsuspecting customers will still try to buy from them.

The CMU software looks for patterns of users who have repeated transactions with one another, and alerts other users that there is a higher probability of having a fraudulent transaction with them...

full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...203861.htm
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