Patent ID: 8805737

Claim:
A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine readable storage medium, and including instructions configured to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations including: accessing a set of data, wherein the set of data includes information about multiple transactions; computing a fraud score for each of the transactions, each of the fraud scores computed based on: a portion of data in the set of data that corresponds to that transaction; and a pre-determined fraud scoring model, wherein the fraud score represents a likelihood that a transaction falls within a pre-determined fraudulent category; identifying a plurality of entities, wherein each of the entities is associated with a subset of transactions from the multiple transactions, and wherein, in each of the subsets, the transactions are associated with a common parameter; generating a summary for each of the entities, wherein generating the summary includes identifying a fraudulent activity trend corresponding to the entity and wherein the fraudulent activity trend is determined using an analysis of the computed fraud scores; storing each of the generated summaries in a computer memory; and performing, on the computing device, a subsequent fraud detection on an additional transaction, wherein performing the subsequent fraud detection facilitates a decision for the additional transaction and includes: receiving additional transaction data that represents the additional transaction; associating the additional transaction with at least one of the identified entities; and computing a fraud score for the additional transaction, wherein computing the fraud score for the additional transaction is based on the additional transaction data, the pre-determined fraud scoring model, and the summary of the at least one entity associated with the additional transaction.