Systems and methods for using location services to detect fraud

A method comprising:

• receiving, by an association circuit, fraudulent activity information regarding fraudulent activity within or near a first area, the fraudulent activity including a time the fraudulent activity occurred;
• receiving, by a detection circuit of an identity management system comprising one or more processors communicably and operatively coupled to a memory device, mobile device information relating to a mobile device of a user, the mobile device information including a physical location of the mobile device at the time the fraudulent activity occurred;
• determining, by the identity management system, that the mobile device was physically located within or near the first area at the time the fraudulent activity occurred;
• receiving, by an association circuit, subsequent fraudulent information regarding subsequent fraudulent activity or near a second area, the subsequent fraudulent activity information including a time the subsequent fraudulent activity occurred;
• receiving, by the detection circuit, subsequent mobile device information relating to the mobile device of the user, the subsequent mobile device information including a subsequent physical location of the mobile device at the time the subsequent fraudulent activity occurred;
• determining, by the identity management system, that the mobile device was physically located within or near the second area at the time the subsequent fraudulent activity occurred;
• receiving, by the detection circuit, information indicative of the mobile device being detected within a detection area based on a wireless communication with the mobile device;
• responsive to determining that the mobile device was physically located within the first area at the time the fraudulent activity occurred and the second area at the time the subsequent fraudulent activity occurred, associating, by fraud logic, the fraudulent activity and the subsequent fraudulent activity is with the mobile device;
• and
• in response to associating the fraudulent activity and the subsequent fraudulent activity with the mobile device and to receiving the information indicative of the mobile device being detected within a detection area, providing, by alert logic, a notification to a component proximate to the mobile device to alert the component of the association of the mobile device with the fraudulent and subsequent fraudulent activity.