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The feasibility of our solution is supported by the cooperation of a characteristic and a finding in online payment fraud scenarios: The well-recognized characteristic is that online payment frauds are mostly caused by account compromise. Our finding is that account theft is indeed predictable based on users' high-risk behaviors, without relying on the behaviors of thieves. Accordingly, we propose an account risk prediction scheme to realize the ex-ante fraud detection. It takes in an account's historical transaction sequence, and outputs its risk score. The risk score is then used as an early evidence of whether a new transaction is fraudulent or not, before the occurrence of the new transaction. We examine our method on a real-world B2C transaction dataset from a commercial bank. Experimental results show that the ex-ante detection method can prevent more than 80\\% of the fraudulent transactions before they actually occur. When the proposed method is combined with an interim detection to form a real-time anti-fraud system, it can detect more than 94\\% of fraudulent transactions while maintaining a very low false alarm rate (less than 0.1\\%).","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2020/636","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/636","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/0636.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/636.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/bibtex/636","volume":{"slug":"2020","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2020","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/","year":2020,"location":"Yokohama","dates":"January 2021 (postponed from 11-17 July 2020)","editors":"Christian Bessiere","isbn":"978-0-9992411-6-5","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2020"},"section":"Special Track on AI in FinTech","track":"Special Track on AI in FinTech","number":636,"pages":{"first":4611,"last":4618},"keywords":["AI for payment: AI for payment security","AI for payment: AI for payment risk modeling","AI for banking: AI for banking risk and fraud modeling"],"videos":[{"label":"Video","url":"https://videos.ijcai20.org/25273/file_25273.m3u8","length_sec":289,"provider":"hls"}],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Breiman et al., 1984] Leo Breiman, J. 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