Analysis of Communication Pattern with Scammers in Enron Corpus

TL;DR

This paper explores communication patterns in the Enron email corpus to understand how employee relationships and communication behaviors may facilitate fraud and deception within organizations.

Contribution

It provides an exploratory analysis of email communication patterns related to fraud detection, highlighting social dynamics that may enable fraudulent activities.

Findings

Fraudulent employees exhibit distinct communication patterns.

Trust and obedience correlate with increased fraudulent behavior.

Communication between fraudulent and non-fraudulent employees reveals specific interaction traits.

Abstract

This paper is an exploratory analysis into fraud detection taking Enron email corpus as the case study. The paper posits conclusions like strict servitude and unquestionable faith among employees as breeding grounds for sham among higher executives. We also try to infer on the nature of communication between fraudulent employees and between non- fraudulent-fraudulent employees