Authors :
M.M.Shahria; Mohammed Nazim Uddin; Miraj Ahmed
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 8 - August
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DOI :
10.38124/IJISRT20AUG762
Abstract :
Social networking sites are becoming parts
and parcels of our daily life. With the increasing of its
popularity, the cybercrimes, targeting these platforms
are also increasing. Cybercriminals use this platform to
harass the victims personally, socially and financially.
Such type of crimes is performed using some of the
vulnerabilities of the social networking platforms.
Identity theft is one of those crimes which is increasing
alarmingly. By creating a fake account, using the same
information and profile picture, one can easily take
disguise of another person. Hence, the criminal can chat
with other persons impersonating the victim. Thus, the
criminal takes the disguise of a person and starts
harassing other people. The consequence of this
problem is very dangerous. By doing so, the criminal
ruins the image of the victim. There are so many cases
where victims attempted to commit suicide after facing
this type of terrible problem. All these things are
occurring as the criminal can download or collect the
profile picture of the victim easily and open a clone
account easily. The availability of information is giving
the chance to the cybercriminal to make an account
exactly looks like the victim’s one. In this paper, we
attempt to prevent this type of identity theft by an
image based solution on the social networking
platforms. The name of this model is ‘Image Based
Identity Theft Prevention’.
Keywords :
Identity Theft, Social Networks, Fake account, Social Harassment, Cyber Crime, Image comparison
Social networking sites are becoming parts
and parcels of our daily life. With the increasing of its
popularity, the cybercrimes, targeting these platforms
are also increasing. Cybercriminals use this platform to
harass the victims personally, socially and financially.
Such type of crimes is performed using some of the
vulnerabilities of the social networking platforms.
Identity theft is one of those crimes which is increasing
alarmingly. By creating a fake account, using the same
information and profile picture, one can easily take
disguise of another person. Hence, the criminal can chat
with other persons impersonating the victim. Thus, the
criminal takes the disguise of a person and starts
harassing other people. The consequence of this
problem is very dangerous. By doing so, the criminal
ruins the image of the victim. There are so many cases
where victims attempted to commit suicide after facing
this type of terrible problem. All these things are
occurring as the criminal can download or collect the
profile picture of the victim easily and open a clone
account easily. The availability of information is giving
the chance to the cybercriminal to make an account
exactly looks like the victim’s one. In this paper, we
attempt to prevent this type of identity theft by an
image based solution on the social networking
platforms. The name of this model is ‘Image Based
Identity Theft Prevention’.
Keywords :
Identity Theft, Social Networks, Fake account, Social Harassment, Cyber Crime, Image comparison
