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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,510 Views
14 Pages

The surge in credit fraud incidents poses a critical threat to financial systems, driving the need for robust and adaptive fraud detection solutions. While various predictive models have been developed, existing approaches often struggle with two per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,603 Views
23 Pages

High-Cardinality Categorical Attributes and Credit Card Fraud Detection

  • Emanuel Mineda Carneiro,
  • Carlos Henrique Quartucci Forster,
  • Lineu Fernando Stege Mialaret,
  • Luiz Alberto Vieira Dias and
  • Adilson Marques da Cunha

15 October 2022

Credit card transactions may contain some categorical attributes with large domains, involving up to hundreds of possible values, also known as high-cardinality attributes. The inclusion of such attributes makes analysis harder, due to results with p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,808 Views
20 Pages

Credit Card Fraud Detection in Card-Not-Present Transactions: Where to Invest?

  • Igor Mekterović,
  • Mladen Karan,
  • Damir Pintar and
  • Ljiljana Brkić

23 July 2021

Online shopping, already on a steady rise, was propelled even further with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, credit cards are a dominant way of doing business online. The credit card fraud detection problem has become relevant more than...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,931 Views
25 Pages

An Adaptive Unsupervised Learning Approach for Credit Card Fraud Detection

  • John Adejoh,
  • Nsikak Owoh,
  • Moses Ashawa,
  • Salaheddin Hosseinzadeh,
  • Alireza Shahrabi and
  • Salma Mohamed

Credit card fraud remains a major cause of financial loss around the world. Traditional fraud detection methods that rely on supervised learning often struggle because fraudulent transactions are rare compared to legitimate ones, leading to imbalance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Citations
30,676 Views
27 Pages

Enhancing Credit Card Fraud Detection: An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach

  • Abdul Rehman Khalid,
  • Nsikak Owoh,
  • Omair Uthmani,
  • Moses Ashawa,
  • Jude Osamor and
  • John Adejoh

In the era of digital advancements, the escalation of credit card fraud necessitates the development of robust and efficient fraud detection systems. This paper delves into the application of machine learning models, specifically focusing on ensemble...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,598 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2022

The rapid growth in e-commerce has resulted in an increasing number of people shopping online. These shoppers depend on credit cards as a payment method or use mobile wallets to pay for their purchases. Thus, credit cards have become the main payment...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,527 Views
22 Pages

28 January 2025

The use of credit cards plays a crucial role in cash management and in meeting the needs for individual and commercial customers due to the spread of risks to the future by making monthly instalments instead of cash transactions. The use of credit ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,424 Views
19 Pages

FraudX AI: An Interpretable Machine Learning Framework for Credit Card Fraud Detection on Imbalanced Datasets

  • Nazerke Baisholan,
  • J. Eric Dietz,
  • Sergiy Gnatyuk,
  • Mussa Turdalyuly,
  • Eric T. Matson and
  • Karlygash Baisholanova

Credit card fraud detection is a critical research area due to the significant financial losses and security risks associated with fraudulent activities. This study presents FraudX AI, an ensemble-based framework addressing the challenges in fraud de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,852 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2021

This paper proposes a method, called autoencoder with probabilistic random forest (AE-PRF), for detecting credit card frauds. The proposed AE-PRF method first utilizes the autoencoder to extract features of low-dimensionality from credit card transac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Citations
20,147 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has limited people’s mobility to a certain extent, making it difficult to purchase goods and services offline, which has led the creation of a culture of increased dependence on online services. One of the crucial issues w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,291 Views
27 Pages

31 January 2023

In many industrialized and developing nations, credit cards are one of the most widely used methods of payment for online transactions. Credit card invention has streamlined, facilitated, and enhanced internet transactions. It has, however, also give...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
14,272 Views
16 Pages

Credit Card Fraud Detection Using a New Hybrid Machine Learning Architecture

  • Esraa Faisal Malik,
  • Khai Wah Khaw,
  • Bahari Belaton,
  • Wai Peng Wong and
  • XinYing Chew

28 April 2022

The negative effect of financial crimes on financial institutions has grown dramatically over the years. To detect crimes such as credit card fraud, several single and hybrid machine learning approaches have been used. However, these approaches have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,039 Views
17 Pages

Credit card fraud detection is a critical challenge in the financial industry, with substantial economic implications. Conventional machine learning (ML) techniques often fail to adapt to evolving fraud patterns and underperform with imbalanced datas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,229 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2024

For financial institutions, credit card fraud detection is a critical activity where the accuracy and efficiency of detection models are important. Traditional methods often use standard feature selection techniques that may ignore refined patterns i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
288 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2026

Credit card fraud detection remains a critical challenge for financial institutions, particularly due to extreme class imbalance and the continuously evolving nature of fraudulent behavior. This study investigates two complementary approaches: anomal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
718 Views
28 Pages

27 November 2025

Mobile payments and e-commerce, along with credit cards, have become deeply embedded in people’s daily business and economic activities. However, the increase in transaction volume has also led to a rise in fraudulent activities. To address cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,426 Views
20 Pages

Credit card fraud detection is a critical challenge in the financial sector due to the rapidly evolving tactics of fraudsters and the significant class imbalance betweenegitimate and fraudulent transactions. Traditional models, while effective to som...

  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
34 Pages

14 January 2026

The prevalence of online transactions and extensive adoption of credit card payments have contributed to the escalation of credit card cyber fraud in modern society. These trends are propelled by technological advancements, which provide fraudulent a...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,912 Views
23 Pages

A Systematic Review of Machine Learning in Credit Card Fraud Detection Under Original Class Imbalance

  • Nazerke Baisholan,
  • J. Eric Dietz,
  • Sergiy Gnatyuk,
  • Mussa Turdalyuly,
  • Eric T. Matson and
  • Karlygash Baisholanova

15 October 2025

Credit card fraud remains a significant concern for financial institutions due to its low prevalence, evolving tactics, and the operational demand for timely, accurate detection. Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a core approach, capable of proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
14,392 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2023

Efficiently and accurately identifying fraudulent credit card transactions has emerged as a significant global concern along with the growth of electronic commerce and the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this regard, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
829 Views
31 Pages

9 October 2025

We present a novel deep generative semi-supervised framework for credit card fraud detection, formulated as a time series classification task. As financial transaction data streams grow in scale and complexity, traditional methods often require large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,455 Views
24 Pages

Achieving Excellence in Cyber Fraud Detection: A Hybrid ML+DL Ensemble Approach for Credit Cards

  • Eyad Btoush,
  • Xujuan Zhou,
  • Raj Gururajan,
  • Ka Ching Chan and
  • Omar Alsodi

22 January 2025

The rapid advancement of technology has increased the complexity of cyber fraud, presenting a growing challenge for the banking sector to efficiently detect fraudulent credit card transactions. Conventional detection approaches face challenges in ada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,641 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2023

With the rapid developments in electronic commerce and digital payment technologies, credit card transactions have increased significantly. Machine learning (ML) has been vital in analyzing customer data to detect and prevent fraud. However, the pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,077 Views
15 Pages

Net-zero emission targets require transparent and efficient carbon credit trading systems. This paper introduces a blockchain-based data visualization framework to enhance decision-making in the production and logistics sectors by simplifying blockch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,700 Views
22 Pages

Increasing global credit card usage has elevated it to a preferred payment method for daily transactions, underscoring its significance in global financial cybersecurity. This paper introduces a credit card fraud detection (CCFD) system that integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,326 Views
22 Pages

11 August 2024

Credit card fraud detection is a critical issue for financial institutions due to significant financial losses and the erosion of customer trust. Fraud not only impacts the bottom line but also undermines the confidence customers place in financial s...

  • Article
  • Open Access

27 January 2026

Credit card fraud detection remains a major challenge due to extreme class imbalance and evolving attack patterns. This paper proposes a practical hybrid pipeline that combines conditional tabular generative adversarial networks (CTGANs) for targeted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,005 Views
32 Pages

Big Data-Driven Distributed Machine Learning for Scalable Credit Card Fraud Detection Using PySpark, XGBoost, and CatBoost

  • Leonidas Theodorakopoulos,
  • Alexandra Theodoropoulou,
  • Anastasios Tsimakis and
  • Constantinos Halkiopoulos

This study presents an optimization for a distributed machine learning framework to achieve credit card fraud detection scalability. Due to the growth in fraudulent activities, this research implements the PySpark-based processing of large-scale tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,560 Views
15 Pages

Credit card fraud detection remains a major challenge due to severe class imbalance and the constantly evolving nature of fraudulent behaviors. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a hybrid framework that integrates a Variational Autoenco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,932 Views
14 Pages

13 June 2023

In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet technology, the number of credit card users has increased significantly. Subsequently, credit card fraud has caused a large amount of economic losses to individual users and related financial en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,175 Views
30 Pages

Interpretable Ensemble Learning Models for Credit Card Fraud Detection

  • Saria Iqbal,
  • Khalid Mahmood Awan,
  • Shahid Kamal and
  • Zahoor Ur Rehman

13 November 2025

With the growing advantages and conveniences provided by digital transactions, the financial sectors also face a loss of billions of dollars each year. While the use of credit cards has made life easier and convenient, it has also become a significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,632 Views
11 Pages

15 June 2024

This research deals with the critical issue of credit card fraud, a problem that has escalated in the last decade due to the significant increase in credit card usage, largely driven by advances in international trade, e-commerce, and FinTech. With g...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,892 Views
11 Pages

Anomaly and Fraud Detection in Credit Card Transactions Using the ARIMA Model

  • Giulia Moschini,
  • Régis Houssou,
  • Jérôme Bovay and
  • Stephan Robert-Nicoud

This paper addresses the problem of the unsupervised approach of credit card fraud detection in unbalanced datasets using the ARIMA model. The ARIMA model is fitted to the regular spending behaviour of the customer and is used to detect fraud if some...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,259 Views
16 Pages

AutoEncoder and LightGBM for Credit Card Fraud Detection Problems

  • Haichao Du,
  • Li Lv,
  • An Guo and
  • Hongliang Wang

6 April 2023

This paper proposes a method called autoencoder with probabilistic LightGBM (AED-LGB) for detecting credit card frauds. This deep learning-based AED-LGB algorithm first extracts low-dimensional feature data from high-dimensional bank credit card feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,785 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2025

With the widespread use of credit cards in online and offline transactions, credit card fraud has become a significant challenge in the financial sector. The rapid advancement of payment technologies has led to increasingly sophisticated fraud techni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
15,020 Views
18 Pages

A Novel text2IMG Mechanism of Credit Card Fraud Detection: A Deep Learning Approach

  • Abdullah Alharbi,
  • Majid Alshammari,
  • Ofonime Dominic Okon,
  • Amerah Alabrah,
  • Hafiz Tayyab Rauf,
  • Hashem Alyami and
  • Talha Meraj

Online sales and purchases are increasing daily, and they generally involve credit card transactions. This not only provides convenience to the end-user but also increases the frequency of online credit card fraud. In the recent years, in some countr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,033 Views
27 Pages

Credit Card-Not-Present Fraud Detection and Prevention Using Big Data Analytics Algorithms

  • Abdul Razaque,
  • Mohamed Ben Haj Frej,
  • Gulnara Bektemyssova,
  • Fathi Amsaad,
  • Muder Almiani,
  • Aziz Alotaibi,
  • N. Z. Jhanjhi,
  • Saule Amanzholova and
  • Majid Alshammari

21 December 2022

Currently, fraud detection is employed in numerous domains, including banking, finance, insurance, government organizations, law enforcement, and so on. The amount of fraud attempts has recently grown significantly, making fraud detection critical wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,406 Views
36 Pages

The increasing sophistication of fraud tactics necessitates advanced detection methods to protect financial assets and maintain system integrity. Various approaches based on artificial intelligence have been proposed to identify fraudulent activities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,286 Views
23 Pages

Enhanced Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Deep Hybrid CLST Model

  • Madiha Jabeen,
  • Shabana Ramzan,
  • Ali Raza,
  • Norma Latif Fitriyani,
  • Muhammad Syafrudin and
  • Seung Won Lee

12 June 2025

The existing financial payment system has inherent credit card fraud problems that must be solved with strong and effective solutions. In this research, a combined deep learning model that incorporates a convolutional neural network (CNN), long-short...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
15,670 Views
26 Pages

Data augmentation is an important procedure in deep learning. GAN-based data augmentation can be utilized in many domains. For instance, in the credit card fraud domain, the imbalanced dataset problem is a major one as the number of credit card fraud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,394 Views
24 Pages

29 October 2025

The exponential growth of e-commerce and advancements in financial technology have escalated credit card fraud into a major threat, resulting in billions of dollars in global losses annually. This necessitates the development of sophisticated fraud d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
7,312 Views
30 Pages

Tuning Machine Learning Models Using a Group Search Firefly Algorithm for Credit Card Fraud Detection

  • Dijana Jovanovic,
  • Milos Antonijevic,
  • Milos Stankovic,
  • Miodrag Zivkovic,
  • Marko Tanaskovic and
  • Nebojsa Bacanin

29 June 2022

Recent advances in online payment technologies combined with the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic has led to a significant escalation in the number of online transactions and credit card payments being executed every day. Naturally, there has a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,377 Views
27 Pages

19 July 2024

This study addresses the critical challenge of data imbalance in credit card fraud detection (CCFD), a significant impediment to accurate and reliable fraud prediction models. Fraud detection (FD) is a complex problem due to the constantly evolving t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,099 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2025

In the field of credit card fraud detection, traditional methods often struggle due to their reliance on complex manual feature engineering or their inability to adapt to rapidly changing fraud patterns. This paper introduces an innovative approach c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,508 Views
28 Pages

10 August 2025

This study critically examines the methodological rigor in credit card fraud detection research, revealing how fundamental evaluation flaws can overshadow algorithmic sophistication. Through deliberate experimentation with improper evaluation protoco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,986 Views
32 Pages

26 October 2021

The problem of imbalanced datasets is a significant concern when creating reliable credit card fraud (CCF) detection systems. In this work, we study and evaluate recent advances in machine learning (ML) algorithms and deep reinforcement learning (DRL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
2,990 Views
18 Pages

RHSOFS: Feature Selection Using the Rock Hyrax Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Credit Card Fraud Detection System

  • Bharat Kumar Padhi,
  • Sujata Chakravarty,
  • Bighnaraj Naik,
  • Radha Mohan Pattanayak and
  • Himansu Das

30 November 2022

In recent years, detecting credit card fraud transactions has been a difficult task due to the high dimensions and imbalanced datasets. Selecting a subset of important features from a high-dimensional dataset has proven to be the most prominent appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,566 Views
15 Pages

29 July 2025

This study addresses the challenges of data imbalance and missing values in credit card transaction datasets by employing mode-based imputation and various machine learning models. We analyzed two distinct datasets: one consisting of European cardhol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,082 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2023

Sustainable financial fraud detection (FD) comprises the use of sustainable and ethical practices in the detection of fraudulent activities in the financial sector. Credit card fraud (CCF) has dramatically increased with the advances in communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
988 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing Security in Airline Ticket Transactions: A Comparative Study of SVM and LightGBM

  • César Gómez Arnaldo,
  • Raquel Delgado-Aguilera Jurado,
  • Francisco Pérez Moreno and
  • María Zamarreño Suárez

30 August 2025

Fraudulent online payment operations represent a persistent challenge in digital commerce, particularly in sectors like air travel, where credit and debit card payments dominate. This study presents a novel fraud detection framework tailored to airli...

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