prevention Every year financial institutions are spending billions against fraud detection applications, as it may hurt the company’s brand and reputation. Data science plays a key role in collecting, summarizing, and predicting the customer database to detect fraudulent activities. Analysis of customer records to drive accurate information is not possible before the existence of data science/big data. AI and Machine learning can help banks combat fraudulent activities. For example, data models can be built for analyzing credit card frauds that provide data intelligence and classify legit or fraudulent transactions, based on details like purchase amount, location, merchant, time and other parameters.