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Social Media Identity Deception Detection: A Survey
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.Comment: Accepted for publication in ACM Computing Survey