Alibaba Group Holding Limited
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ONLINE MONEY-LAUNDERING CUSTOMER GROUPS

Abstract:

One embodiment provides a method and system for detecting online money laundering. During operation, the system can obtain, from an online financial platform, online financial transaction records associated with a plurality of customer accounts and establish fund-transfer relationships among the plurality of customer accounts based on the transaction records. The system can further perform a cluster-analysis operation to group the plurality of customer accounts into a number of clusters based on the established fund-transfer relationships and apply a machine-learning model to determine whether a respective customer-account cluster is involved in online money laundering.