Social Media Identity Deception Detection: A Survey
It addresses the problem of identity deception for social media users and providers, but is incremental as a survey.
The paper surveys identity deception attacks on social media, categorizing them into fake profiles, identity theft, and cloning, and reviews detection techniques while identifying research challenges.
Social media have been growing rapidly and become essential elements of many people's lives. Meanwhile, social media have also come to be a popular source for identity deception. Many social media identity deception cases have arisen over the past few years. Recent studies have been conducted to prevent and detect identity deception. This survey analyses various identity deception attacks, which can be categorized into fake profile, identity theft and identity cloning. This survey provides a detailed review of social media identity deception detection techniques. It also identifies primary research challenges and issues in the existing detection techniques. This article is expected to benefit both researchers and social media providers.