For full details, please read the paper published at USENIX 2013 [0]. Some points which I found interesting + 6% of the fraudulent accounts purchased are resol

For full details, please read the paper published at USENIX 2013 [0]. Some points which I found interesting + 6% of the fraudulent accounts purchased are resold (Table 2) + India is the most popular location to register fraudulent accounts (Table 3) + Hotmail is the most popular e-mail service used to confirm fraudulent Twitter accounts (Table 5) + The algorithm to "retroactively predict" fraudulent account is not based on any popular machine learning technique. Most of it looks like regex matching patterns. + The evaluation of the algorithm was done on 4,800 random sample Twitter accounts (200 each merchant) out of the available 121,027 accounts on which the longitudinal study was performed [0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity13/sec13-paper_thomas.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...