A typical way of detecting fraud is looking at anomalies:
- are there big sums of money moved around?
- are there many small transactions from linked accounts to some common place?
- were these accounts sleeping but then suddenly woke up and started to move money?
And things like that. A Machine Learning algorithm can detect such suspicious activity and flag transactions for futher analysis
Check this article for more details:
https://tech.olx.com/detecting-fraud-rings-with-unsupervised-learning-554bedf29dbf