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Fake Profile Detection in Instagram Online Social Network


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1 Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Engineering & Technology (U.I.E.T), India
 

Social network provides number of applications such as Myspace, Facbook, Twitter and many more through which users can connect with their friends and share their images and videos with them. Instagram is application of social network which is used to share images and videos with friends also tag a friend on an image and video. It is difficult to recognize which user is normal user or which user is malicious user. In this paper different techniques to recognize fake profile user has been surveyed and provide a mechanism to detect fake profiles in social network. This paper proposed a mechanism to detect normal posts using Random Forest classifier. The proposed mechanism has been analyzed using weka.

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Social Networks, Fake Profile, Cloning ,Instagram and Facebook.
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Authors

Sanjeev Dhawan
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Engineering & Technology (U.I.E.T), India
Kulvinder Singh
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Engineering & Technology (U.I.E.T), India
Pooja
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Engineering & Technology (U.I.E.T), India

Abstract


Social network provides number of applications such as Myspace, Facbook, Twitter and many more through which users can connect with their friends and share their images and videos with them. Instagram is application of social network which is used to share images and videos with friends also tag a friend on an image and video. It is difficult to recognize which user is normal user or which user is malicious user. In this paper different techniques to recognize fake profile user has been surveyed and provide a mechanism to detect fake profiles in social network. This paper proposed a mechanism to detect normal posts using Random Forest classifier. The proposed mechanism has been analyzed using weka.

Keywords


Social Networks, Fake Profile, Cloning ,Instagram and Facebook.

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