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Student proposal: can stolen money be traced across banks in seconds without sharing customer data? Please break this

I'm a 300-level Computer Science student at NOUN in Lagos. I have no professional experience in fraud or banking, so this post is me asking for correction from people who do. The problem as I understand it When online fraud happens, the money often moves through several mule accounts and gets cashed out within minutes.

  • Computer Science student proposes tracing stolen money across banks in near real-time.
  • Method involves representing transactions as a graph with accounts as nodes and transfers as edges.

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