Fake Instagram Account Detection

Abstract

With the coming of the Internet and social media, while hundreds of people have availed from the vast sources of information obtainable, there has been an immeasurable enlarge in the rise of cyber-crimes. According to a 2019 report in the Economics Times, India has witnessed a 457% rise in cybercrime in the five years between 2011 and 2016. Most guesses that this is due to the impact of social media such as Instagram on our daily lives. While these help in creating a sound social network, the creation of user accounts on these sites usually needs just an email. A real-life person can create many fake IDs and hence deceiver can easily be made. Unlike the real-world structure where many rules and regulations are imposed to identify oneself in a unique manner (for example while issuing one’s passport or adhar card or pan card), in the artificial environment of social media, entery does not require any such checks. In this project, we study the different accounts on Instagram, in particular, and try to assess an account as fake or real.