%D 2012
%R 10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297242
%O 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
%L scholars2814
%J 2012 International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICCIS 2012 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2012 - Conference Proceedings
%X 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.
%K Detection system; Distance-based; Levenshtein distance; Misleading informations; Sensitivity and specificity; Text-matching, Information science; Technology; Viruses, Electronic mail
%P 215-220
%C Kuala Lumpur
%T Distance-based hoax detection system
%A A. Ishak
%A Y.Y. Chen
%A S.-P. Yong
%V 1