Patent ID: 9648030
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for identifying an imposter account in a social network, the system comprising a server to connect with the social network, the server comprising: a processor; memory accessible to the processor; an interface for the processor to communicate with the social network; wherein the processor, using the memory, implements all of: a monitoring engine to monitor user accounts of a social network; an identifying engine to identify attributes associated with each of the user accounts of the social network; a matching engine to match the attributes associated with each of the user accounts of the social network; a determining engine to determine, based on matching the attributes associated with each of the user accounts of the social network, when at least one of the user accounts is suspected to be an imposter account associated with identity theft of a victim account; and an executing engine to execute an authentication process of the suspected imposter account to prevent the identity theft of the victim account by the suspected imposter account, wherein the authentication process is triggered by a request for a chat by the suspected imposter account with an established connection of the victim account.