Steward, S. (1997, January). Lighting the way in '97. Cellular Business, 23.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....detection environments. Keywords: fraud detection, rule learning, profiling, constructive induction, intrusion detection, applications 1. Introduction In the United States, cellular fraud costs the telecommunications industry hundreds of millions of dollars per year (Walters and Wilkinson 1994; Steward 1997). One kind of cellular fraud called cloning is particularly expensive and epidemic in major cities throughout the United States. Cloning fraud causes great inconvenience to customers and great expense to cellular service providers. Existing methods for detecting cloning fraud are ad hoc and their ....

....fraud eventually. However, authentication requires changes in hardware: both phones and switches must be capable of processing authentication requests. Currently about thirty million nonauthenticatable cell phones are in use in the United States alone, and their replacement will not be immediate (Steward 1997). In the meantime, cloning fraud will continue to be a problem and the industry will rely on post call fraud detection methods. 2.2.2. Post call methods Post call methods periodically analyze call data on each account to determine whether cloning fraud has occurred. One such method, collision ....

Steward, S. (1997, January). Lighting the way in '97. Cellular Business, 23.

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