Fraud detection systems
We have seen a number of customers that are using Graph Database Management Systems such as Neo4j for fraud detection systems. The principle is quite simple: in many cases, the fraud of a particular nature is not defined by one transaction only, but by a chain of transactions that have their specific characteristics and that need to be compared to one another to see if they really do constitute a case of fraud.
In the following example, we are just looking at a suspect case of credit card fraud:
A particular user always uses his credit card for transactions at a particular store. Another user uses his credit card for similar ...
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