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Simulation is our telescope to unveiling the fraud in the financial universe

Two years ago, I once said: “Simulation is my telescope to explore the universe of financial fraud” just a few days ago, this comparison came back to my mind when the first ever picture of a black hole was achieved through a coordinated effort of more than 200 scientists and observatories all around the globe. “I can think of myself as an astronomer, eager to learn more about the universe, but without a proper tool or telescope, it would be hard to learn more than I can see with my eyes. Simulation is my telescope to explore the universe of financial fraud.” Dr Edgar Lopez-Rojas (interview at Kaggle 2017). Some years ago, I published a synthetic dataset in Kaggle that contained a generated scenario from a real dataset sample for a Mobile Money Payments system in an African country. The PaySim dataset was the first synthetic transactional dataset shared openly and released in a known data scientist community platform. This fact led Kaggle to name the PaySim dataset as the “dataset of th