International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS)
IJCNIS Vol. 9, No. 1, 8 Jan. 2017
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Identity Verification Mechanism for Detecting Fake Profiles in Online Social Networks
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Online Social Networks (OSNs), Security and Privacy, Fake Profiles
Abstract
Impersonating users’ identity in Online Social Networks (OSNs) is one of the open dilemmas from security and privacy point of view. Scammers and adversaries seek to create set of fake profiles to carry out malicious behaviors and online social crimes in social media. Recognizing the identity of Fake Profiles is an urgent issue of concern to the attention of researchers. In this paper, we propose a detection technique called Fake Profile Recognizer (FPR) for verifying the identity of profiles, and detecting the fake profiles in OSNs. The detection method in our proposed technique is based on utilizing Regular Expression (RE) and Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) approaches. We evaluated our proposed detection technique on three datasets types of OSNs: Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. The results explored high Precision, Recall, accuracy, and low False Positive Rates (FPR) of detecting Fake Profiles in the three datasets.
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Ali M. Meligy, Hani M. Ibrahim, Mohamed F. Torky, "Identity Verification Mechanism for Detecting Fake Profiles in Online Social Networks", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), Vol.9, No.1, pp.31-39, 2017. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2017.01.04
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