Audit and Analysis of Impostors
Akshay J. Sarode, Arun Mishra · 2015
In the present generation, the social life of every person has become associated with online social networks (OSN). These sites have made drastic changes in the way we socialize. Making friends and keeping in contact with them as well as being updated of their activities, has become easier. But with their rapid growth, problems like fake profiles, online impersonation have also increased. The risk lies in the fact that anybody can create a profile to impersonate a real person on the OSN. The fake profile could be exploited to build online relationship with a targeted person purely through online interactions with the friends of victim.