Detection impersonation attempts social media messaging

Abstract

Embodiments include a method, system and computer program product for detecting impersonation attempts in social media messaging. Aspects include receiving, via a social media network, a message from a sender to a recipient and analyzing a content of the message to extract factual statements from the message. Aspects also include analyzing a profile of the recipient to extract facts from the profile and comparing each of the factual statements to the facts from the profile. Based on a determination that one of the factual statements are verifiable by at least one of the facts, aspects include assigning a likelihood score to the factual statements. Aspects further include calculating a legitimacy score for the message based at least in part on the likelihood score of each verified factual statement from the message and transmitting the legitimacy score and the message to the recipient.