Abstract: A method for identifying fraud factors includes: storing data points; storing financial transactions; storing a plurality of consumer data entries, each data entry associated with a consumer and including a mobile device identifier and account identifier; identifying a home market for a data entry based on usage patterns of an associated financial account; identifying, at a predetermined time, a geographic location of a mobile device associated with the data entry; storing a location data point for the geographic location if the geographic location is outside of a predetermined distance from the home market, wherein the location data point includes the identified geographic location, the consumer associated with the data entry, and a time and/or date at which the geographic location was identified; and identifying a fraud factor for detecting fraud in a transaction, the fraud factor based on the financial transactions, the data points, and the location data point.