Naval Postgraduate School
Types of Online Deception
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Deception in virtual communities can be a serious issue. We present three approaches to characterizing
online deception: by the appearance, by the motivation, and by the mechanism. Appearances include identity
deception, mimicking, lying (by insincere statements, false excuses, or false promises), and fraud.
Motivations can be both aggressive and defensive. Mechanisms are analyzed using concepts from case
grammar in linguistics. Fundamentally new forms of deception not in these taxonomies are unlikely in
virtual communities.
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Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies, Hershey, PA: Idea
Group, 2005.
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