Online daters' intention of fudging their personal information have a huge advantage, as majority of the people are horrible at identifying a liar.

But a new research is turning the tables on deceivers using their own words. "Generally, people don't want to admit they've lied," said Catalina Toma, communication science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "But we don't have to rely on the liars to tell us about their lies. We can read their handiwork." Using personal descriptions written for Internet dating profiles, Toma and Jeffrey Hancock, communication professor at Cornell University, have identified clues as to whether the author was being deceptive.