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1. Credit Card
Fraud
Detection
By: Mansi Choudhary

2. Overview
Introduction 01
Literature Review 02
Data Collection 03
Data Preprocessing 04
Feature Selection 05
Machine Learning Models 06
Anomaly Detection
Techniques
07
Deep Learning Techniques 08
Evaluation Metrics 09

3. INTRODUCTION
Overview of credit card fraud and its impact on
individuals and businesses :
• Credit card fraud is a type of financial fraud. It involves the unauthorised
use of someone's credit card information to make fraudulent transactions,
leading to financial losses for the cardholder. It is a form of identity theft
because it often requires stolen personal information to perpetrate the fraud
• Fraud can also hurt customer retention and decrease customer lifetime value
(LTV). If a customer disputes a charge on their credit card bill, the business
may be required to pay a chargeback fee. Additionally, many payment
processing providers charge additional fees to businesses that have a higher
chargeback ratio

4. Significance of developing effective fraud detection methods
1.Protecting Finances: Fraud can result in significant financial losses for individuals,
businesses, and governments. Effective detection methods help minimize these losses by
identifying fraudulent activities early on.
2.Maintaining Trust: Fraud can erode trust between customers, businesses, and financial
institutions. By implementing robust fraud detection measures, organizations can
demonstrate their commitment to protecting their customers and stakeholders, thereby
preserving trust and reputation.
3.Compliance: Many industries are subject to regulatory requirements regarding fraud
prevention and detection. Implementing effective fraud detection methods helps
organizations comply with these regulations, avoiding legal penalties and reputational
damage
4.Data Security: Fraud detection often involves monitoring and analyzing large volumes of
data. Developing effective fraud detection methods necessitates robust data security
measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access and misuse.
5.Customer Protection: Effective fraud detection methods help protect customers from
identity theft, financial scams, and other fraudulent activities. This enhances customer
satisfaction and loyalty, as customers feel safer and more confident conducting transactions
with the organization

5. Statistics

6. LITERATURE REVIEW
Below is link for existing literature on credit card fraud
detection :
Existing literature on credit card fraud detection techniques
Models used in previous research paper:
• Cleaned the data
• They acquired the result of an accurate value of credit card fraud
detection i.e. 0.9994802867383512 (99.93%) using a random forest
algorithm.

7. Strengths:
• They acquired the result of an accurate value of credit card fraud
detection i.e. 0.9994802867383512 (99.93%) using a random forest
algorithm.
Limitations :
• Imbalanced data is not handled
• Pre Processing like Standardization or Normalization not performed
• Neural network not included
• Data Visualizations was not good enough

8. DATA COLLECTION
Data Collected from Kaggle
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mlg-ulb/creditcardfraud
Discuss the importance of having labeled data:
Labeled data is crucial for training and evaluating machine learning models. It
provides the ground truth necessary for algorithms to learn patterns, make
predictions, and assess performance accurately. Labeled data enables model
development, validation, and generalization to new scenarios, ensuring reliable and
effective machine learning applications

9. DATA PREPROCESSING
Steps:
• Loaded the dataset
• Checking for null values
• Checking for duplicates value
• Delete the non important features
• Feature Selection
• Standard Scaler
• SMOTE
• ML & DL

10. Data Cleaning
After removing duplicates values
No null values

11. All data types was in float no need to do label encoding or 1-hot
encoding

12. Highly imbalanced data
SMOTE
performed

13. • Feature selection is a process in data science where the most
relevant and informative features (or variables) are chosen from the
original set of features in a dataset.
• The goal is to improve model performance, reduce overfitting, and
enhance interpretability by focusing on the most predictive and
meaningful features
FEATURE SELECTION

14. Feature selection
Techniques
aim
Reduce
Dimensionality
Improve Model
Performance
Enhance
Interpretability
Avoid
Overfitting

15. F-test (f_classif) for feature selection is performed to select the
best features
f_classif is a function used for performing analysis of variance (ANOVA) F-test for feature selection in
classification tasks. It computes the ANOVA F-value for each feature and its corresponding p-value. These
values help determine the significance of each feature in discriminating between different classes in a
classification problem

16. F-test (f_classif)

17. Remove unwanted features

18. MACHINE LEARNING MODELS
03
Logistic Regression
Random Forest
Classifier
Decision Tree
Classifier
Neural Network

19. Logistic
Regression
Decision Tree
Classifier

20. Random Forest
Classifier

21. Neural Network
Accuracy :99 %

22. ANOMALY DETECTION
TECHNIQUES
03
Logistic Regression
SVC
KNeighbor
s
Classifier
GaussianN
B
Random Forest
Classifier
Decision Tree
Classifier
Neural Network
Anomaly detection refers to the process of identifying patterns or instances that deviate from the norm
within a dataset. This technique is particularly useful in various fields, including fraud detection,
network security, healthcare monitoring, and manufacturing quality control, among others. When it
comes to detecting rare fraud cases, anomaly detection approaches play a crucial role because
fraudulent activities often represent a small proportion of overall transactions or events.

23. Common anomaly detection approaches
01
Isolation Forest
02
One-Class SVM
03
Local Outlier Factor

25. DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES
03
Logistic Regression
SVC
KNeighbor
s
Classifier
GaussianN
B
Random Forest
Classifier
Decision Tree
Classifier
Neural Network
Deep learning models, including deep neural networks (DNNs), have been increasingly used for credit
card fraud detection due to their ability to learn complex patterns and features from large-scale and
high-dimensional data

26. Potential Advantages:
1.Feature Learning: Deep learning models can automatically learn hierarchical representations of
data, enabling them to capture complex patterns without explicit feature engineering.
2.Adaptability: Deep learning models can adapt to changing fraud patterns and evolving fraud tactics
by continuously learning from new data.
3.High Performance: Deep learning models have demonstrated high performance in various complex
tasks, suggesting their potential to achieve state-of-the-art results in credit card fraud detection.
4.Scalability: Deep learning models can scale effectively to large datasets, making them suitable for
processing massive volumes of credit card transactions in real-time.

27. Challenges:
1.Data Quality and Quantity: Deep learning models require large amounts of high-quality labeled
data for training, which may be scarce in fraud detection due to the rarity of fraudulent instances.
2.Interpretability: Deep learning models are often regarded as "black boxes," making it challenging
to interpret their decisions, which can be a concern in highly regulated domains like finance.
3.Computational Complexity: Training deep learning models, especially large architectures, can be
computationally intensive and time-consuming, requiring significant computational resources.
4.Overfitting: Deep learning models are susceptible to overfitting, especially when trained on
imbalanced datasets with a small number of fraud cases. Regularization techniques and careful
model evaluation are necessary to mitigate this issue.

28. EVALUATION METRICS
03
Logistic Regression
SVC
KNeighbor
s
Classifier
GaussianN
B
Random Forest
Classifier
Decision Tree
Classifier
Neural Network
1.Accuracy: Accuracy measures the overall correctness of the model's predictions and is calculated as the ratio of correctly
predicted instances to the total number of instances. However, accuracy alone may not be a reliable metric for imbalanced
datasets where the number of fraudulent transactions is much smaller than legitimate ones.
2.Precision: Precision measures the proportion of true positives (correctly identified fraudulent transactions) among all
transactions predicted as fraudulent. It is calculated as the ratio of true positives to the sum of true positives and false
positives (legitimate transactions incorrectly classified as fraudulent). High precision indicates a low false positive rate,
which is desirable in fraud detection to minimize the number of false alarms.Precision = True Positives / (True Positives +
False Positives)
3.Recall (Sensitivity): Recall measures the proportion of true positives among all actual fraudulent transactions. It is
calculated as the ratio of true positives to the sum of true positives and false negatives (fraudulent transactions incorrectly
classified as legitimate). High recall indicates a low false negative rate, ensuring that most fraudulent transactions are
detected.
Recall = True Positives / (True Positives + False Negatives)

29. Recall could be more important in detecting potentially harmful
security threats
Finally observed that Logistic regression, decision tree and
random forest are the algorithms that gave better results

30. Real-time Implementation and Challenges
Implementing fraud detection models in real-time payment processing systems presents several
challenges and considerations, including model interpretability, computational efficiency, and handling
concept drift
Aspects:
Model Interpretability:
• Challenge: Deep learning models, which are increasingly used in fraud detection, are often
regarded as black boxes, making it difficult to understand and interpret their decisions. This lack
of interpretability can hinder trust and regulatory compliance

31. Computational Efficiency:
• Challenge: Real-time payment processing systems require low-latency responses to handle large
transaction volumes. Complex models with high computational requirements may not meet the
real-time processing constraints
Handling Concept Drift:
• Challenge: Concept drift refers to the phenomenon where the statistical properties of the data
change over time, leading to degradation in model performance if not addressed. In fraud
detection, fraudsters constantly adapt their tactics, causing the fraud detection model's
effectiveness to degrade over time

32. Conclusion
• In this project, I devised a novel approach for fraud detection. Utilizing the Synthetic
Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE), I balanced the dataset, leading to
notable improvements in classifier performance. Moreover, I conducted feature
scaling to enhance results, and feature selection to eliminate irrelevant features.
Employing a range of techniques including Machine Learning, Deep Neural
Networks, and Anomaly Detection methods, I observed that Logistic Regression,
Decision Trees, Random Forest, and Deep Neural Networks emerged as the top-
performing algorithms.
• In conclusion, through rigorous experimentation and analysis, it became evident that
Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, and Deep Neural Networks
exhibit superior performance in detecting fraudulent activities.

33. Discuss potential areas of improvement and future research
directions in credit card fraud detection.
1.Enhanced Feature Engineering: Continuous exploration and identification of new features that capture subtle patterns
indicative of fraudulent behavior can improve detection accuracy. This may involve incorporating additional
transaction metadata, behavioral biometrics, or contextual information associated with transactions.
2.Dynamic Risk Scoring: Developing dynamic risk scoring mechanisms that adapt to evolving fraud patterns in real-
time can enhance detection capabilities. Techniques such as adaptive risk scoring models that continuously update risk
scores based on recent transaction data and fraud trends can improve fraud detection efficiency.
3.Utilization of Advanced Machine Learning Techniques: Continued exploration and adoption of advanced machine
learning techniques, such as ensemble methods, deep learning architectures, and reinforcement learning, can improve
fraud detection accuracy, especially in handling complex fraud patterns and large-scale datasets.
4.Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning: Leveraging unsupervised and semi-supervised learning approaches
for anomaly detection in credit card transactions can be beneficial, particularly for detecting emerging fraud patterns
and previously unseen attacks without relying heavily on labeled data.