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by kjs3 2101 days ago
Yeah...there's not a COBOL program running someplace saying IF DEPOSIT IS EQUAL TO 9999.00 THEN FLAG-IT. There's some pretty sophisticated machine learning work being done here, and all the major banks these days have a data science team working the problem.
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starkred 2101 days ago
Sadly there probably is such a COBOL program but it's only going to be the first in line of a lot of systems looking for fraud.
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kjs3 2100 days ago
Why is that sad? Since there are a vast collection of morons who see "transactions over 10k will get flagged" and 'cleverly' say "ah-ha! I shall beat the system with 9999.00!", why wouldn't you want to spot that early and easy?
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