Manuscript Number : IJSRSET2293158

Fake Accounts and Clone Profiles Identification on Social Media Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Authors(2) :-Ajith M, M. Nirmala

Fake and Clone profiles are creating dangerous security problems to social network users. Cloning of user profiles is one serious threat, where already existing user’s details are stolen to create duplicate profiles and then it is misused for damaging the identity of original profile owner. They can even launch threats like phishing, stalking, spamming etc. Fake profile is the creation of profile in the name of a person or a company which does not really exist in social media, to carry out malicious activities. In this paper, a detection method has been proposed which can detect Fake and Clone profiles in Twitter. Fake profiles are detected based on number of abuse reports, number of comments per day and number of rejected friend requests, a person who are using fake account. For Profile Cloning detection two Machine Learning algorithms are used. One using Random forest Classification algorithm for classifying the data and Support Vector Machine algorithm. This project has worked with other ML algorithms, those training and testing results are included in this paper.

Authors and Affiliations

Ajith M
MCA, Department of Computer Applications, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
M. Nirmala
Department of Computer Applications, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Machine Learning, Fake and Clone Profiles, Twitter, Social Media, Classification Algorithms.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 9 | Issue 3 | May-June 2022
Date of Publication : 2022-06-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 551-560
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET2293158
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

Cite This Article :

Ajith M, M. Nirmala, " Fake Accounts and Clone Profiles Identification on Social Media Using Machine Learning Algorithms, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 9, Issue 3, pp.551-560, May-June-2022. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET2293158      Journal URL : https://res.ijsrset.com/IJSRSET2293158
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