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by deusofnull 3730 days ago
Just a thought: have you ever considered that by publishing such red flags for fraud, fraudsters will adopt these "organic" behaviors in order to appear more legitimate? I understand that the idea is to make illicit transactions more difficult and that adopting these "organic" behaviors is more difficult, but automated fraud tools (ie - what most 'script-kiddies' use) also become more sophisticated over time. Regardless, I bet you don't publish ~all~ your fraud detection vectors for that exact reason.
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I'd be surprised if all of the published vectors are genuine, too, for the same reason :)