Patent ID: 8245282

Claim:
A method for generating a test to identify fraudulent users of an online group, comprising: obtaining, for a control group, information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children, wherein the control group is representative of non-fraudulent users in the online group; obtaining, for a general group, information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children, wherein the general group is representative of the online group as a whole; obtaining, for a fraudulent group, information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children, wherein the fraudulent group is representative of fraudulent users in the online group; and using a processor to generate a test that identifies fraudulent users of the online group, wherein: the test includes (1) an equation which generates a fraud score using one or more pieces of user information as input and (2) a threshold against which the fraud score is compared; and generating the test includes: determining the equation, including by comparing the information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children for the control group with the information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children for the fraudulent group; and determining the threshold, including by applying the equation to the information associated with receptiveness to being matched with someone who has children for the general group in order to obtain fraud scores for each member of the general group.