Implementing simple fraud-detection logic on a Kafka topic named payments
- Ilakk Manoharan
- Jan 8, 2023
- 1 min read
Here are the general steps you can follow to implement simple fraud detection logic on a Kafka topic named "payments":
1. First, you will need to define a stream in KSQL over the "payments" topic. You can do this using the following KSQL statement:
CREATE STREAM payments (payment_id INT, user_id INT, amount DOUBLE) WITH(KAFKA_TOPIC='payments', VALUE_FORMAT='AVRO');
2. Next, you will need to create a table in KSQL that keeps track of the total amount of payments made by each user. You can do this using the following KSQL statement:
CREATE TABLE total_payments_by_user AS SELECT user_id, SUM(amount) as total_payments FROMpayments GROUP BY user_id;
3. Now you can use the total_payments_by_user table to detect potential fraud. For example, you could flag any payments made by users who have made more than $1000 in total payments as potentially fraudulent, using the following KSQL statement:
CREATE STREAM fraudulent_payments AS SELECT p.* FROM payments p JOINtotal_payments_by_user t ON p.user_id = t.user_id WHERE t.total_payments > 1000;
4. You can then take further action on the fraudulent payments, such as sending an alert to a fraud detection team, or blocking the payment from being processed.

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