Automatically identifying potentially fraudulent gaming accounts

A method comprising:

• receiving one or more values stored in one or more fields of a row of a database table maintained by the game networking system, the one or more fields corresponding to features of a game account that are relevant to determining whether the game account is a potentially fraudulent game account, wherein the features include at least one of a ratio of virtual goods received by the game account to a level of gaming activities performed by the game account and a ratio of a number of transfers of virtual goods out of the game account to an average number of transfers of virtual goods out of additional game accounts, and wherein at least some of the transfers of the virtual goods out of the game account are accomplished through deliberate losses by an owner of the game account;
• based on a combination of the one or more values transgressing a threshold value, determining that the game account is the potentially fraudulent game account;
• and
• automatically preventing at least some use of the potentially game account.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving one or more values stored in one or more fields of a row of a database table maintained by the game networking system, the one or more fields corresponding to features of a game account that are relevant to determining whether the game account is a potentially fraudulent game account, wherein the features include at least one of a ratio of virtual goods received by the game account to a level of gaming activities performed by the game account and a ratio of a number of transfers of virtual goods out of the game account to an average number of transfers of virtual goods out of additional game accounts, and wherein at least some of the transfers of the virtual goods out of the game account are accomplished through deliberate losses by an owner of the game account;
• based on a combination of the one or more values transgressing a threshold value, determining that the game account is the potentially fraudulent game account;
• and
• automatically preventing at least some use of the potentially fraudulent game account.