A survey on deceptions in online social networks

Online Social Network (OSN) sites continue to grow and dominate the Internet with billions of users signing up and actively participating in these sites. The users use the sites to build relationships between old and new friends, trusting them by exchanging and sharing information. However, the OSN users are unaware of security and privacy threats instilled with their trust. Many threats exploit the trust in the users as they create their way into their targeted victims´ virtual communities to gather and diffuse information. In this paper, we present a survey on the types of trust deception attacks on OSN users and the existing solutions to detect and prevent users´ trust from being deceived. Finally, we will present open research issues in this area that require further significant research efforts.