Scammed Posting Detector: A Case Study of Pet Scammed Posting
Nowadays, there are many people are being victims of the internet scam. Scammer performs the scam in order to gain money from the victims. Pet scam is one of the scams that contribute to the increase of the internet scam cases. Pet scam starts from the pet scammed posting which is the fake postin...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Teknologi Petronas
2013
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| Online Access: | http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13550/1/Aqma_13895.pdf http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13550/ |
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| Summary: | Nowadays, there are many people are being victims of the internet scam. Scammer
performs the scam in order to gain money from the victims. Pet scam is one of the
scams that contribute to the increase of the internet scam cases. Pet scam starts from
the pet scammed posting which is the fake posting about pet sales or adoptions in the
online auction site. Due to the unawareness of online buyer on the pet scamming
activities and the current pet scam applications are not able to notify the user on the
potential pet scam, the pet scam detector which used to detect and alert the user on
the potential pet scam must be developed. Usually, the victims of the pet scam are
the pet lovers and online buyers. Therefore, they are the target user for this
application. Besides, the research on the previous pet scammed emails, the interview
of the experienced pet scam victim, and the survey on the public awareness regarding
pet scam had been conduct to support the method applied. The results of these pilot
studies help to derived the pet scammed email patterns which is useful in the
development of the projects. |
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