FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Fraudulent Refund Evidence

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Main Authors: Yan, Xinyu, Chen, Boyang, Zhang, Jiaming, Wu, Tiantong, Tae, Hong Xi, He, Yichen, Wang, Tiantong, Mi, Yachun, Hao, Yurong, Zhao, Yilei, Xiao, Lei, Huang, Longtao, Xie, Pengjun, Liu, Wei, Lim, Wei Yang Bryan
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author Yan, Xinyu
Chen, Boyang
Zhang, Jiaming
Wu, Tiantong
Tae, Hong Xi
He, Yichen
Wang, Tiantong
Mi, Yachun
Hao, Yurong
Zhao, Yilei
Xiao, Lei
Huang, Longtao
Xie, Pengjun
Liu, Wei
Lim, Wei Yang Bryan
author_facet Yan, Xinyu
Chen, Boyang
Zhang, Jiaming
Wu, Tiantong
Tae, Hong Xi
He, Yichen
Wang, Tiantong
Mi, Yachun
Hao, Yurong
Zhao, Yilei
Xiao, Lei
Huang, Longtao
Xie, Pengjun
Liu, Wei
Lim, Wei Yang Bryan
contents Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated images have become increasingly realistic and readily adaptable to concrete real-world claims, creating new challenges for verifying visual evidence. A concrete emerging risk is AI-generated refund fraud, in which manipulated or synthetic images are used to support claims about damaged products, poor delivery conditions, or service-related defects. Existing AI-generated image detection benchmarks mainly evaluate standalone authenticity classification, cross-generator transfer, or forensic localization, leaving claim-conditioned fraudulent evidence detection underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce FraudBench, a multimodal benchmark for detecting AI-generated fraudulent refund evidence. FraudBench is constructed from real-world user-review evidence across e-commerce, food delivery, and travel-service scenarios. We curate real evidence images together with their associated review and product metadata, identify genuine damaged and undamaged evidence through MLLM-assisted filtering and human annotation, and synthesize fake-damaged evidence from genuine undamaged reference images using six state-of-the-art image editing and generation models. Using FraudBench, we evaluate MLLMs, specialized AI-generated image detectors, and human participants under the same settings. Experiments show that current MLLMs often recognize real-damaged evidence but fail on many fake-damaged subsets, with fake-damage detection rates (TPR) far below the 50% baseline on most generator subsets. Specialized detectors generally perform better but remain inconsistent across generators and can produce false positives on real-damaged samples, revealing a clear gap between generic AI image detection and reliable claim-conditioned refund-evidence verification.
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spellingShingle FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Fraudulent Refund Evidence
Yan, Xinyu
Chen, Boyang
Zhang, Jiaming
Wu, Tiantong
Tae, Hong Xi
He, Yichen
Wang, Tiantong
Mi, Yachun
Hao, Yurong
Zhao, Yilei
Xiao, Lei
Huang, Longtao
Xie, Pengjun
Liu, Wei
Lim, Wei Yang Bryan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated images have become increasingly realistic and readily adaptable to concrete real-world claims, creating new challenges for verifying visual evidence. A concrete emerging risk is AI-generated refund fraud, in which manipulated or synthetic images are used to support claims about damaged products, poor delivery conditions, or service-related defects. Existing AI-generated image detection benchmarks mainly evaluate standalone authenticity classification, cross-generator transfer, or forensic localization, leaving claim-conditioned fraudulent evidence detection underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce FraudBench, a multimodal benchmark for detecting AI-generated fraudulent refund evidence. FraudBench is constructed from real-world user-review evidence across e-commerce, food delivery, and travel-service scenarios. We curate real evidence images together with their associated review and product metadata, identify genuine damaged and undamaged evidence through MLLM-assisted filtering and human annotation, and synthesize fake-damaged evidence from genuine undamaged reference images using six state-of-the-art image editing and generation models. Using FraudBench, we evaluate MLLMs, specialized AI-generated image detectors, and human participants under the same settings. Experiments show that current MLLMs often recognize real-damaged evidence but fail on many fake-damaged subsets, with fake-damage detection rates (TPR) far below the 50% baseline on most generator subsets. Specialized detectors generally perform better but remain inconsistent across generators and can produce false positives on real-damaged samples, revealing a clear gap between generic AI image detection and reliable claim-conditioned refund-evidence verification.
title FraudBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Fraudulent Refund Evidence
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08820