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Secrets of the digital detectives.

This article reports on the software being used to detect fraud. One of the highlighted markets, for car insurance, allows computers to compute variables that would otherwise be undetectable or too complicated for a human fraud detector. For instance, most claims filed over the weekend or on a Mon...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 380; no. 8496; pp. 34 - 36
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 9/23/2006
Subjects:
Computer software development
Computer software industry
Telecommunication systems
Computer crimes
Credit card fraud
Insurance crimes
Internet fraud
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost