Fraud detection and management in mobile telecommunications networks

The paper discusses the status of research on detection of fraud undertaken as part of the European Commission-funded ACTS ASPeCT (Advanced security for personal communications technologies) project. A first task has been the identification of possible fraud scenarios and of typical fraud indicators which can be mapped to data in toll tickets. Currently, the project is exploring the detection of fraudulent behaviour based on a combination of absolute and differential usage. Three approaches are being investigated: a rule based approach and two approaches based on neural networks, where both supervised and unsupervised learning are considered. Special attention is being paid to the feasibility of the implementations.