TY  - CONF
AV  - none
CY  - Kuala Lumpur
KW  - Detection system; Distance-based; Levenshtein distance; Misleading informations; Sensitivity and specificity; Text-matching
KW  -  Information science; Technology; Viruses
KW  -  Electronic mail
SP  - 215
ID  - scholars2814
TI  - Distance-based hoax detection system
N2  - Hoaxes are non malicious viruses. They live on deceiving human?s perception by conveying false claims as truth. Throughout history, hoaxes have actually able to influence a lot of people to the extent of tarnishing the victim?s image and credibility. Moreover, wrong and misleading information has always been a distortion to a human?s growth. Some hoaxes were created in a way that they can even obtain personal data by convincing the victims that those data were required for official purposes. Hoaxes are different from spams in a way that they masquerade themselves through the address of those related either directly or indirectly to us. Most of the time, they appear as a forwarded message and sometimes from legit companies. This paper addresses this issue by developing a hoax detection system by incorporating text matching method using Levenshtein Distance measure. The proposed model is used to identify text-based hoax emails. Sensitivity and specificity are used to evaluate the accuracy of the system identifying hoax emails. © 2012 IEEE.
N1  - cited By 8; Conference of 2012 International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICCIS 2012 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2012 ; Conference Date: 12 June 2012 Through 14 June 2012; Conference Code:93334
SN  - 9781467319386
Y1  - 2012///
VL  - 1
EP  - 220
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84867907147&doi=10.1109%2fICCISci.2012.6297242&partnerID=40&md5=6c8c9e2f5e8a36d5ab822c6a273d52c5
A1  - Ishak, A.
A1  - Chen, Y.Y.
A1  - Yong, S.-P.
ER  -