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I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

An Investigation into Real-time Fraud Detection in the Telecommunications Industry (2003-ish)

Paul Kinlan

What is this? This is my Software Engineering final year project for University from about 2003. I used to be work in the Fraud Detection industry (mortgage and credit card fraud) and this project was to solve a problem that I had found in the telecoms industry: fraudulent phone calls. It was impossible (for me) to get phone records from telecoms companies, so I had to build a tool that would model fraudulent calls and normal call patterns, I then had to build a tool that would detect calls that were fradulent from all of the call records.

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