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The Imbalanced Classification of Fraudulent Bank Transactions Using Machine Learning

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  • Alexey Ruchay

    (Department of Information Security, South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia
    Department of Mathematics, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk 454001, Russia)

  • Elena Feldman

    (Department of Mathematics, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk 454001, Russia)

  • Dmitriy Cherbadzhi

    (Department of Mathematics, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk 454001, Russia)

  • Alexander Sokolov

    (Department of Information Security, South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia)

Abstract

This article studies the development of a reliable AI model to detect fraudulent bank transactions, including money laundering, and illegal activities with goods and services. The proposed machine learning model uses the CreditCardFraud dataset and utilizes multiple algorithms with different parameters. The results are evaluated using Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score, and IBA. We have increased the reliability of the imbalanced classification of fraudulent credit card transactions in comparison to the best known results by using the Tomek links resampling algorithm of the imbalanced CreditCardFraud dataset. The reliability of the results, using the proposed model based on the TPOT and RandomForest algorithms, has been confirmed by using 10-fold cross-validation. It is shown that on the dataset the accuracy of the proposed model detecting fraudulent bank transactions reaches 99.99%.

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  • Alexey Ruchay & Elena Feldman & Dmitriy Cherbadzhi & Alexander Sokolov, 2023. "The Imbalanced Classification of Fraudulent Bank Transactions Using Machine Learning," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(13), pages 1-15, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:13:p:2862-:d:1179718
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