Organized Fraud Rings
Go beyond transaction and account views to analyze all related activities and relationships at a network dimension
" Major North American issuers estimate that first-party fraud and credit abuse by cardholders cause between 5 percent and 35 percent of their total bad-debt write-off."
— The Enemy Within: The Threat of First-Party Fraud and Cardholder Abuse in a Weak Economy
TowerGroup, March 30, 2009
How SAS® Can Help
SAS gives you a holistic view of fraudulent activity – including related perpetrators – and a much clearer understanding of customer behavior. With SAS, you can:
- Draw in data from all relevant sources – including third parties – and parse the data to create a complete data model of all entities and their key linking attributes.
- Identify more fraud while reducing false positives with an advanced scoring engine that uses independent and combined scores to assess overall risk on a customer, product and network basis, then generates alerts that are automatically routed to the appropriate resources.
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Double or triple investigator efficiency with unique network visualization, data drill-down capabilities and other tools that enable investigators to:
- Quickly review automatically generated network diagrams to determine if any account or transaction is fraudulent.
- See patterns and symptoms that can lead to improved controls and new monitoring techniques.
- Produce complete dossiers of networks surrounding a case using an intuitive interface that provides fast access to full customer details.
- Prevent criminals from masking their previous identities and repeatedly opening accounts by automatically applying risk scoring against known fraudulent networks.
How SAS® Is Different
No other fraud solution available provides the same level of detection, automation, ease of use and ROI for organized fraud rings. SAS provides:
- Advanced data network building and analytic techniques that can ingest existing risk scores or red flags and provide an aggregated score at the network level to identify subtle or hidden relationships that may indicate account bust-out or associate collusion.
- True, large-scale network analytics that work across internal and external data sources – e.g., fraud consortium databases – to link customers and accounts based on common attributes or more subtle patterns of behavior.
- Neural network and advanced modeling approaches that take you far beyond the limits of standard parameter-driven, rules-based systems and deliver more valid alerts that you can act on, enabling you to maintain extremely low false-positive rates while achieving unrivaled detection rates.
- Industry-leading predictive analytics that let you perform supervised and unsupervised scoring to spot anomalies in the data.
- A metadata configuration that links all records exhaustively based on combinations of attributes within the data; then, using statistical techniques, identifies and collapses common entities to produce single views of entities within networks.
Related Products and Solutions
SAS® Fraud Network Analysis
Fraud is a growing problem for banks and insurance companies, in large part because it is so hard to detect. That's because fraudsters act much like legitimate customers, and they employ increasingly sophisticated fraud techniques that enable them to fly well below the radar.
SAS Fraud Network Analysis helps institutions detect and prevent fraud by going beyond individual and account views to analyze all related activities and relationships at a network dimension.
SAS® Fraud Management
Performing "after the fact" analysis of questionable transactions is a reactive approach to fraud detection that doesn't offer any real protection from loss. Only SAS delivers a full-service enterprisewide fraud management system that offers real-time scoring of accounts by looking at all card transactions – including purchases, payments and nonmonetary transactions. No other system on the market provides this breadth of coverage.
SAS® Enterprise Case Management
SAS Enterprise Case Management enforces best practices and proper gathering of evidence, and can greatly reduce the cost of investigations. The solution provides a structured environment for managing investigation workflows, attaching comments or documentation and recording financial information, such as exposures and losses. This gives investigators more power, flexibility and task automation, without having to rely on IT for support.
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