AI Powered Payment Fraud Detection System

📌 Project Overview

An AI-based system that detects fraudulent credit card transactions in real time using Machine Learning techniques.

🎯 Objectives

• Detect fraudulent payment transactions using AI
• Classify transactions as Legitimate or Fraudulent
• Analyze transaction patterns and identify anomalies in real time
• Evaluate model using precision, recall, and F1-score

🛠️ Tools & Technologies

• Python
• Pandas & NumPy
• Scikit-learn
• Google Colab
• GitHub

📊 Dataset

• Source: Kaggle
• File: creditcard.csv
• Contains real credit card transactions labeled as fraud or legit

⚙️ ML Models Used

• Logistic Regression
• Random Forest

📏 Evaluation Metrics

• Precision
• Recall
• F1-Score