HATTM: A Novel Hybrid Attention Model for Ethereum Phishing Scams Detection

Abstract

Detecting Ethereum phishing scams is extremely urgent. In this paper, we propose a novel Hybrid Attention Model for Ethereum phishing scams detection called HATTM to solve the problem of irregular transaction series in Ethereum, fully extract account features and then improve detection performance. Specifically, we take a novel perspective by regarding each transaction of an account as a separate amount-time point to handle irregular data. In the hybrid attention model, we capture intra-account and inter-account trading features through intra-account attention of EPS-FORMER and inter-account attention of EPSGAT, respectively. We further extract Intra-account and Inter-account statistical features to enrich the account representation. The complete representation of accounts is composed of the above four types of features to detect phishing accounts. Experimental results on the real-world Ethereum dataset show that HATTM outperforms existing models and is far ahead in the recall, which indicates that our model can effectively detect Ethereum phishing scams.