Identity resolution for fraud ring detection

Abstract

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for identifying fraudulent accounts associated with an electronic payment service. In some implementations, a computing device may retrieve a data set including a number of attributes for each of a multitude of accounts, and may construct a plurality of different graphs each based on a unique set of the attributes. Each graph may include a plurality of nodes linked together by a multitude of edges, where each node identifies a corresponding account and each edge indicates one or more of the corresponding attributes that are common to a pair of accounts. The computing device may determine a likelihood of each graph correctly identifying fraudulent accounts by analyzing groups of nodes connected to each other by corresponding groups of edges using historical account data, and may select the graph having the greatest determined likelihood to predict whether any of the accounts is fraudulent.