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What is Profile Cloning (Fake Profile)

Chapter 17
Risk Detection and Cyber Security for the Success of Contemporary Computing
According to Bródka & Sobas (2014) AU114: The in-text citation "Bródka & Sobas (2014)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , a fake profile is an attempt to duplicate or reproduce illegally the credentials or biodata of an existing account by creating an identical one without the original account holder's knowledge or permission to eavesdrop or tap exchanges between the original profile owner and friends.
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Profile Clone Detection on Online Social Network Platforms
Anthony Doe Eklah (University of Ghana, Ghana), Winfred Yaokumah (University of Ghana, Ghana), and Justice Kwame Appati (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9317-5.ch017
Abstract
Successful profile cloning attacks have far-reaching consequences for the victims. People whose profiles are cloned suffer defamation, mistrust, loss of job, interdiction, public disgrace, dent of reputation, and defrauding. This chapter aims to identify and propose a model that detects profile cloning attacks on online social network platforms. The proposed model is based on unsupervised machine learning clustering and statistical similarity verification methods for the filtration of profiles. The model computes statistical values for attribute similarity measure (ASM) and friends network similarity measure (FNSM). The model has a precision score of 100%. The attribute weight and friends network similarity measures show percentile figures ranging from 0.45 to 1.00. Profile accounts that fall within this range for both ASM and FNSM measures are likely to turn out to be cloned. The higher the figures, the more the suspicion of being a fake account to the supposed original one. The strength of the model is that it exposes the actual clone using the outcome of the computation.
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