Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the link, Bob Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron at concentric.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Credit Card Fraud > There's an article today about this: > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-06/how-mastercard-predicts-divorce/?cid=hp:mainpromo8 > > http://tinyurl.com/yjqogzf > > --Bob > > ==On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> > wrote: >> The credit card companies has some very fancy neural nets and other >> artificial intelligence (yes, yes, it's an oxymoron :) programs which >> looks for certain purchase patterns. A typical pattern for credit card >> fraud is a few small charges (gas,...) followed by major purchases. Large >> oversea purchase almost always requires manual verification regardless of >> whether you call your card issuer ahead of time or not. >> >> Regards, >> Spencer >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >