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Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: Classifying Imposters Using Decision Trees
Simon Fong; Yan Zhuang; Jiaying He
2013-03-11
Conference NameThe First International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies
Source Publication1st International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies, FGCT 2012
Pages58-63
Conference Date12-14 Dec. 2012
Conference PlaceLondon, UK
PublisherIEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA
Abstract

There is an alarming news recently revealed on media that 8.7 percent of users on Facebook are fake; this amounts to more than 83 million accounts worldwide. Consequently this huge number of fake users whose profiles were unverified translates to the potential dangers ranging from espionage, identity thievery, information misuse and loophole to privacy compromise to the users and their families. Nowadays with the popularity of online social networks (OSN), it is easy to footprint a potential target from the information easily trawled from the Web. Anyone can simply impose as somebody else that s/he claimed to be, without checking whether the information is genuine or not. For example it is so easy to impersonate one's identity on OSN by supplying fake photos and false names, which will go preemptively unchecked by Facebook. In this paper, a preliminary experiment of applying decision tree classification algorithms is presented, for identifying imposters from a pool of friends in Facebook. The classification approach is similar to that of classifying spams from legitimate emails except the attributes of a user's account is taken into consideration instead of text-mining the message contents. An accuracy of 92.1% is demonstrated to be achievable using the classification techniques. 

KeywordFake Users Classification Algorithms Social Network Computing
DOI10.1109/FGCT.2012.6476584
URLView the original
Indexed ByCPCI-S
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS IDWOS:000317289400012
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84876072027
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Document TypeConference paper
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AffiliationDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau SAR
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Simon Fong,Yan Zhuang,Jiaying He. Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: Classifying Imposters Using Decision Trees[C]:IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2013, 58-63.
APA Simon Fong., Yan Zhuang., & Jiaying He (2013). Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: Classifying Imposters Using Decision Trees. 1st International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies, FGCT 2012, 58-63.
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