January 2016

A fraud detection tool in E-auctions

Due to rapid growth of the use of online auctions, fraudsters have taken advantage of these platforms to participate in their own auctions in order to raise prices (a practice called shilling). Innocent bidders have been forced to pay higher prices than they were willing to offer. This has resulted in the need to design and implement a shill detection algorithm. To eliminate this shilling problem, we designed a shilling...

Author(s): Tatenda D. Kavu, Talent Rugube, Francis Kawondera and Nyika Chifamba