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Traditional fraudster detection methods become useless for detecting such fraudsters because these methods rely on accessing these connections to work effectively. To resolve this problem, we introduce two attributes to quantify the buyer-anonymized activities associated with each user and use them to reinforce the traditional methods. Experimental results on a dataset crawled from an auction website show that the proposed attributes effectively enhance the prediction accuracy for detecting fraudsters, particularly when the proportion of the buyer-anonymized activities in the dataset is large. 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