Patent ID: 8510845

Claim:
A method of detecting identity misrepresentation of at least one user on a network, comprising: receiving registration information from a trusted source to establish a monitoring account associated with a monitoring service for detecting identity misrepresentation of at least one user seeking to create a new account, wherein the at least one user is not the trusted source; responsive to receiving the registration information from the trusted source, receiving validated identity information from the trusted source, wherein the validated identity information is associated with the at least one user, wherein the validated identity information includes at least one identity attribute of the at least one user according to the trusted source; responsive to receiving the validated identity information from the trusted source, monitoring data exchanged between a network client via a filter object on a device associated with the at least one user and the network, wherein the filter object is configured to direct the monitored data exchanged to a monitoring control client associated with the monitoring service, and wherein the monitored data comprises identity-related data comprising data associated with web forms configured to elicit identity information from the at least one user seeking to create the new account; detecting an identity misrepresentation by the at least one user on the device using the monitoring control client executing on the device, based on comparing the validated identity information from the trusted source with identity-related data directed from the filter object associated with the at least one user seeking to create the new account, wherein detecting the identity misrepresentation comprises: detecting, within the monitored data, information indicative of an account login; obtaining purported identity information in response to the account login; and logging the identity misrepresentation for the at least one user if the purported identity information differs from the validated identity information; and sending a notification of the identity misrepresentation to the trusted source based on the detected identity misrepresentation.