Catching Slick Eddie: How Oracle AI Tech and Curiosity Cracked the Nut
June 9, 2026 | 11:00 AM CT
Most fraud detection talks are code dumps with a toy scenario. Not nice.
Meet Slick Eddie. A fraudster. Five people. Gift cards. And three completely uncoupled transactional systems with zero foreign keys between them. That's the gnarly part nobody talks about.
I wanted to catch him using only ChatGPT-style prompts. No code. Sounded awesome. Then I hit a wall. Hard.
The fraud pattern was just too complex. That's when I partnered Free-Tier Oracle 26ai with an AI Coding Assistant and built a real multi-phase detection pipeline in PL/SQL and PGQL. Fraud "fingerprint" embedding. Similarity search to isolate suspicious transaction bursts. Property Graphs that collapsed 3.7 million paths down to 132. Balance validation to nail the exact fraud sequence.
Is that awesome or what?!
But check this out. This session isn't a victory lap. It's the real story. What I tried. What blew up. And how curiosity plus an AI assistant solved in days what would've taken months solo.
Oracle AI handles every bit of it. Vectors, graphs, SQL. All in one engine. Mind blowing.
Ready to catch Slick Eddie?
Presented by Craig Shallahamer, Applied AI Scientist, Viscosity
Founder, OraPub
Oracle ACE Director
This event is co-hosted by the New York Oracle Users Group (www.nyoug.org) and Oracle Professional Services firm, Viscosity North America (www.viscosityna.com)
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Craig Shallahamer
Craig is a co-founder of OraPub and Viscosity's Applied AI Scientist.
Having worked with Oracle technology since 1989, Craig Shallahamer is a leader in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and Oracle database performance tuning.
Craig has extensive experience in constructing and teaching predictive modeling methods, notably developing a Reinforcement Machine Learning bot in 1990. He has launched several specialized generative AI conversational assistants, each with distinct personalities and capabilities. As an Applied AI Scientist at Viscosity and the founder of OraPub, Craig is also the author of two acclaimed books: "Oracle Performance Firefighting" and "Forecasting Oracle Performance".
He has received recognition as an Oracle ACE Director for his valuable contributions to the Oracle community through his technical expertise and leadership. Craig is an active participant in Oracle user groups, frequently presenting at conferences and serving as a board member and volunteer.
Viscosity's core expertise includes:
Data Analytics, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, High Availability & Scalability Solutions, Cloud Migrations, Performance Tuning, Data Integrations, AI and Machine Learning, Oracle APEX Development, and technical training.