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Communication in the Internet might take different forms and, as everything that is connected with the Internet, it might have its pros and cons. Thanks to the Internet people from various corners of the world might make friendships and have constant contact, but users of the Internet might also encounter real threads (Lewis, George and Giordano 2009: 1). What is more, communication in the Internet is commonly called a "computer-mediated communication (CMC)" (Lewis, George and Giordano 2009: 1). Nevertheless, the danger that might be a very frequent disadvantage of the communication online is deception that might be, however, discovered when using certain techniques or sticking to the "interpersonal deception theory (IDT)" by Buller and Bargoon (1996, in: Lewis, George and Giordano 2009: 2). Masip, Garrido and Herrero (2004) provide, however, the definition of deception that reads like this:

"the deliberate attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal, fabricate, and/or manipulate in any other way factual and/or emotional information, by verbal and/or nonverbal means, in order to create or maintain another or others a belief that the communication himself or herself considers false".

(2004: 147).

According to the IDT, these are both sides of communication processes that might be using lying (Buller and Bargoon 1996, in: Lewis, George and Giordano 2009: 2). What is more, deception might apppear on different levels and it might be observable in gestures, mimics, voice or even language used and the last aspect will be analysed in this paper (Lewis, George and Giordano 2009: 7). Although detecting deception is a difficult task, there are some features that indicate using lying by people who communicate with each other (Levine et al...

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...ad the effect of minimalizing the amount of concrete and verifiable detail that deceivers supplied and of disassociating deceivers from what they were saying. Other linguistic patterns were contrary to predictions but also had the effect of making deceptive answers more pallid and less personal that truthful ones."

(2013: 15).

Nevertheless, a liar might even just omit significant information and that will also be treated as deception (Burgoon and Buller 2013: 17). What is more, a deceiver tries to avoid providing a receiver with too much information because that person is convinced that too much details might reveal the act of lying (Vrij 2008, in: Picornell 2012: 153). Moreover, liars might even add further but unimportant information (Anolli et al. 2002, in: Picornell 2012: 154).

Further features that might be observable in the texts of liars and suspects are, f