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Text Updates and Photo Uploads. Textual updates similar to the ones shown in Table 1 can provide criminals with incentives. 154000 users on Facebook have publicly expressed the possession of a diamond while 2190 expressed losing their keys at a certain place. Any overlap between the two sets, within the geographical reach of the criminal, could give then an easy access to a valuable item. Table 1 contains limited publicly shared results. A criminal may widen their search by embedding support for their local languages and using a larger set of phrases. Similarly, uploading a photo of valuable items on social networks can also incentivize crime. Moreover, sleeping and drinking patterns identified from uploads, can help criminals in planning their crime execution hours.
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Mahmood, S., Desmedt, Y. (2012). Online Social Networks, a Criminals Multipurpose Toolbox (Poster Abstract). In: Balzarotti, D., Stolfo, S.J., Cova, M. (eds) Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses. RAID 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7462. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33338-5_19
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