Online Social Deception and Its Countermeasures: A Survey

We are living in an era when online communication over social network services (SNSs) have become indispensable part of people's everyday lives. As a consequence, deception (OSD) SNSs has emerged as serious threat cyberspace, particularly for users vulnerable to such cyberattacks. Cyber attackers exploited the sophisticated features carry out harmful OSD activities, financial fraud, privacy threat, or sexual/labor exploitation. Therefore, it is critical understand and develop effective countermeasures against building trustworthy SNSs. In this paper, we conducted extensive survey, covering (i) multidisciplinary concepts deception; (ii) types attacks their unique characteristics compared other cybercrimes; (iii) comprehensive defense mechanisms embracing prevention, detection, response (or mitigation) along with pros cons; (iv) datasets/metrics used validation verification; (v) legal ethical concerns related research. Based on provide insights into effectiveness lessons from existing literature. conclude survey paper in-depth discussions limitations state-of-the-art recommend future research directions area.