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When Riders Become Nodes: Mapping Fraud in Ride-Hailing with Graph Neural Networks

A ride can look perfectly normal. The driver accepts a request, reaches the pickup point, and ends the trip shortly afterward. Nothing in that single transaction necessarily screams fraud. But place it beside the driver’s repeated early completions, the passengers who frequently disappear from the platform after pickup, and the same locations where similar cancellations occur, and the pattern changes. ...

January 4, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina