Scraping and Preprocessing Commercial Auction Data for Fraud Classification

06/02/2018
by   Ahmad Alzahrani, et al.
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In the last three decades, we have seen a significant increase in trading goods and services through online auctions. However, this business created an attractive environment for malicious moneymakers who can commit different types of fraud activities, such as Shill Bidding (SB). The latter is predominant across many auctions but this type of fraud is difficult to detect due to its similarity to normal bidding behaviour. The unavailability of SB datasets makes the development of SB detection and classification models burdensome. Furthermore, to implement efficient SB detection models, we should produce SB data from actual auctions of commercial sites. In this study, we first scraped a large number of eBay auctions of a popular product. After preprocessing the raw auction data, we build a high-quality SB dataset based on the most reliable SB strategies. The aim of our research is to share the preprocessed auction dataset as well as the SB training (unlabelled) dataset, thereby researchers can apply various machine learning techniques by using authentic data of auctions and fraud.

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