SPAM DETECTION AND FAKE USER

IDENTIFICATION NETWORKS

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

the award of
Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering

by

GUNDA AAKASH (Reg. No.37110001)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING

SATHYABAMA
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY)
Accredited with Grade “A” by NAAC
JEPPIAAR NAGAR, RAJIV GANDHI SALAI,
CHENNAI – 600 119

MARCH-2021
This is to certify that this project report is the bonafide work of GUNDA AAKASH
(Reg. No. 37110001) who carried out the project entitled “ SPAM DETECTION AND
FAKE USER IDENTIFICATION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS “ under my supervision from
August 2020 to March 2021.

Internal Guide
Mrs. A.C.Santha Sheela,M.E.,(ph.d)

Head of the Department

Submitted for Viva voce Examination held on ___________________________

Internal Examiner External Examiner

 DECLARATION

I GUNDA AAKASH here by declare that the Project Report entitled “SPAM
DETECTION AND FAKE USER IDENTIFICATION ON SOCIA NETWORKS”
Is done by me under the guidance of Mrs.santha Sheela,M,E.,PH.D.,Department
of Computer Science and Engineering at Sathyabama Institute of Science and
Technology is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of
Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

DATE:

PLACE: CHENNAI SIGNATURE OF THE CANDIDATE

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am pleased to acknowledge my sincere thanks to Board of Management

of SATHYABAMA for their kind encouragement in doing this project and for
completing it successfully. I am grateful to them.

I convey my thanks to Dr. T. Sasikala, M.E., Ph.D., Dean, School of Computing,

Dr. S. Vigneswari, M.E., Ph.D., and Dr. L. Lakshmanan, M.E., Ph.D., Heads
Of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for providing me
necessary support and details at the right time during the progressive reviews.

I would like to express my sincere and deep sense of gratitude to my Project

Guide Mrs.A.c.Santha sheela,M.E.,Ph.d.,Assistant Professor, for her valuable
guidance,suggestions and constant encouragement paved way for the successful
completion of my project work.

I wish to express my thanks to all Teaching and Non-teaching staff members of

the Department of Computer Science and Engineering who were helpful in
many ways for the completion of the project.
 ABSTRACT

Crime which is an unlawful act is increasing in our society day by day. With
the advancement of the technology the criminals are also getting new ways
of doing crimes. Crime takes place due to few common reasons that is
money, imbalance mentality and emotions. After the crime takes place
victims needs to go through a very complicated and a lengthy process for
reporting the crime in police station. It‟s also a very hectic process for the
Crime branch to do it manually and maintain the records. So the crime
Reporting system is the solution for all the victims and for the crime
department. This will not only make the work easy but also it will help the
users to access many features like news feed and all the updates regarding
crime taking place in our locality. It will bring the police and the victims more
Close and hence increasing the security. This makes the FIR registration
Simple and easy hence making it time efficient. The system will help the
crime department to take action as quick as possible and maintain the
Database efficiently. The police can even update an alert to the citizens
regarding the most wanted persons, lost belongings and any kind of
emergency through this system. As a result this system will give a
sustainable solution to the users, police and victims for managing the crime
in a better and a structured way.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT 5
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER No. TITLE page no

1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 DOMAIN INTRODUCTION 4
1.2 OPPURTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 3

2. LITERATURE SURVEY 6
2.1 STATISTICAL FEATURES 6
2.1.1 EXISTING SYSTEM 6
2.2 EXISTING SYSTEM 6
2.2.1 DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM 6

3. SYSTEM DESIGN & METHODOLOGY 10

3.1 PROPOSED SYSTEM 10
3.2 ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM 12
3.3 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM 16
3.4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 18

4. SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT 24
4.1 SOFTWARE LANGUAGE 24
4.2 MODULES 28
4.3 MODULES DESCRIPTION 29
4.4 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE 25
4.5 DETECTION OF USER 26
4.6 REQUIREMENTS 26

4.7 NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS 28

5. SYSTEM DESIGN AND SYSTEM STUDY 29
5.1 INPUT DESIGN 29
5.2 OUTPUT DESIGN 29
5.3 FEASIBILITY STUDY 30
5.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM 31

6. UML DIAGRAMS AND TESTS 33

6.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM 34
6.2 CLASS DIAGRAM 36
6.3 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 37
6.4 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 38
6.5 UNIT TESTING 39
6.6 FUNCTIONAL TESTING 39
6.7 SYSTEM TESTING 40
6.7.1 WHITE BOX TESTING 40
6.7.2 BLACK BOX TESTING 41

7. INTEGRATION TESTING AND TEST RESULTS 42

7.1 DESCRIPTION AND TEST RESULTS 42
7.2 ACCEPTANCE TESTING AND TEST RESULTS 42

8. CONCLUSIONS AND REFERENCES

 LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE No. FIGURE NAME PAGE No.

3.3 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM 24

5.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM 28
6.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM 34
6.2 CLASS DIAGRAM 35
6.3 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 36
6.4 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 37
 CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION
It has become quite unpretentious to obtain any kind of information from any source across the
world by using the Internet. The increased demand of social sites permits users to collect
abundant amount of information and data about users. Huge volumes of data available on these
sites also draw the attention of fake users. Twitter has rapidly become an online source for
acquiring real-time information about users. Twitter is an Online Social Network(OSN) where
users can share anything and everything, such as news, opinions, and even their moods. Several
arguments can be held over different topics ,such as politics ,current affairs ,and important events.
When a user tweets something, it is instantly conveyed to his/her followers, allowing them to
outspread the received information at a much broader level [2]. With the evolution of OSNs, the
need to study and analyze users’ behaviors in online social platforms has intensified. Many
people who do no have much information regarding the OSN scan easily be tricked by the
fraudsters. There is also a demand to combat and place a control on the people who use OSNs
only for advertisements and thus spam other people’s accounts. Recently, the detection of spam
in social networking sites attracted the attention of researchers. Spam detection is a difficult task
in maintaining the security of social networks. It is essential to recognize spams in the OSN sites
to save users from various kinds of malicious attacks and to preserve their security and privacy.
These hazardous maneuvers adopted by spammers cause massive destruction of the community
in the real world. Twitter spammers have various objectives, such as spreading invalid
information, fake news, rumors, and spontaneous messages. Spammers achieve their malicious
objectives through advertisements and several other means where they support different mailing
lists and subsequently dispatch spam messages randomly to broadcast their interests. These
activities cause disturbance to the original users who are known as non-spammers. In addition, it
also decreases the repute of the OSN platforms. Therefore, it is essential to design a scheme to
spot spammers so that corrective efforts can be taken to counter their malicious activities.
Several research works have been carried out in the domain of Twitter spam detection. To
encompass the existing state-of the-art, a few surveys have also been carried out on fake user
identification from Twitter. Tin min et al. provide a survey of new methods and techniques to

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identify Twitter spam detection. The above survey presents a comparative study of the current
approaches. On the other hand, the authors in conducted a survey on different behaviors
exhibited by spammers on Twitter social network. The study also provides a literature review
that recognizes the existence of spammers on Twitter social network. Despite all the existing
studies, there is still a gap in the existing literature. Therefore, to bridge the gap, we review state-
of-the-art in the spammer detection and fake user identification on Twitter. Moreover, this
Survey presents at taxonomy of the Twitter spam detection approaches and attempts to offer a
detailed description of recent developments in the domain. The aim of this paper is to identify
different approaches of spam detection on Twitter and to present a taxonomy by classifying these
approaches into several categories. For classification, we have identified four means of reporting
spammers that can be helpful in identifying fake identities of users. Spammers can be identified
based on: (i) fake content, (ii) URL based spam detection, (iii) detecting spam in trending topics,
and(iv)fakeuseridentification.Table1provides a comparison of existing techniques and helps
users to recognize the significance and effectiveness of the proposed methodologies in addition
to providing a comparison of their goals and results.Table2 compares different features that are
used for identifying spam on Twitter. We anticipate that this survey will help readers find diverse
information on spammer detection techniques at a single point. This article is structured such that
Section II presents the taxonomy for the spammer detection techniques on Twitter. The
comparison of proposed methods for detecting spammers on Twitter is discussed in Section III.
Section IV presents an overall analysis and discussion, whereas Section V concludes the paper
and highlights some directions for future work.

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2.2 DOMAIN INTRODUCTION

What Is A Social Network?

Wikipedia defines a social network service as a service which “focuses on the building and
verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities,
or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the
use of software.”
A report published by OCLC provides the following definition of social networking sites: “Web
sites primarily designed to facilitate interaction between users who share interests, attitudes and
activities, such as Facebook, Mix i and My Space.”

What Can Social Networks Be Used For?

Social networks can provide a range of benefits to members of an organisation:

Support for learning: Social networks can enhance informal learning and support social
connections within groups of learners and with those involved in the support of learning.
Support for members of an organisation: Social networks can potentially be used my all
members of an organisation, and not just those involved in working with students. Social
networks can help the development of communities of practice.
Engaging with others: Passive use of social networks can provide valuable business
intelligence and feedback on institutional services (although this may give rise to ethical
concerns).
Ease of access to information and applications: The ease of use of many social networking
services can provide benefits to users by simplifying access to other tools and applications.
The Facebook Platform provides an example of how a social networking service can be used
as an environment for other tools.
Common interface: A possible benefit of social networks may be the common interface
which spans work / social boundaries. Since such services are often used in a personal
capacity the interface and the way the service works may be familiar, thus minimising training

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 and support needed to exploit the services in a professional context. This can, however, also
be a barrier to those who wish to have strict boundaries between work and social activities.

Examples of Social Networking Services

Examples of popular social networking services include:

Facebook: Facebook is a social networking Web site that allows people to communicate with
their friends and exchange information. In May 2007 Facebook launched the Facebook
Platform which provides a framework for developers to create applications that interact with
core Facebook features
My Space: My Space is a social networking Web site offering an interactive, user-submitted
network of friends, personal profiles, blogs and groups, commonly used for sharing photos,
music and videos.
Ning: An online platform for creating social Web sites and social networks aimed at users
who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills.
Twitter: Twitter is an example of a micro-blogging service. Twitter can be used in a variety
of ways including sharing brief information with users and providing support for one’s peers.

2.2 OPPURTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

The popularity and ease of use of social networking services have excited institutions with their
potential in a variety of areas. However effective use of social networking services poses a
number of challenges for institutions including long-term sustainability of the services; user
concerns over use of social tools in a work or study context; a variety of technical issues and
legal issues such as copyright, privacy, accessibility; etc.
Institutions would be advised to consider carefully the implications before promoting significant
use of such services.

What is Secure Computing?Computer security (Also known as cyber security or IT Security)

is information security as applied to computers and networks. The field covers all the processes

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and mechanisms by which computer-based equipment, information and services are protected
from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction. Computer security also
includes protection from unplanned events and natural disasters. Otherwise, in the computer
industry, the term security -- or the phrase computer security -- refers to techniques for
ensuring that data stored in a computer cannot be read or compromised by any individuals
without authorization. Most computer security measures involve data encryption and
passwords. Data encryption is the translation of data into a form that is unintelligible without a
deciphering mechanism. A password is a secret word or phrase that gives a user access to a
particular program or system.

Diagram clearly explain the about the secure computing

Working conditions and basic needs in the secure computing:

If you don't take basic steps to protect your work computer, you put it and all the information on
it at risk. You can potentially compromise the operation of other computers on your
organization's network, or even the functioning of the network as a whole.

1. Physical security:

Technical measures like login passwords, anti-virus are essential. (More about those
below) However, a secure physical space is the first and more important line of defense.

Is the place you keep your workplace computer secure enough to prevent theft or access to it
while you are away? While the Security Department provides coverage across the Medical

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center, it only takes seconds to steal a computer, particularly a portable device like a laptop or a
PDA. A computer should be secured like any other valuable possession when you are not
present.

Human threats are not the only concern. Computers can be compromised by environmental
mishaps (e.g., water, coffee) or physical trauma. Make sure the physical location
of your computer takes account of those risks as well.

2. Access passwords:

The University's networks and shared information systems are protected in part by login
credentials (user-IDs and passwords). Access passwords are also an essential protection for
personal computers in most circumstances. Offices are usually open and shared spaces, so
physical access to computers cannot be completely controlled.

To protect your computer, you should consider setting passwords for particularly
sensitive applications resident on the computer (e.g., data analysis software), if the software
provides that capability.

3. Prying eye protection:

Because we deal with all facets of clinical, research, educational and administrative data here on
the medical campus, it is important to do everything possible to minimize exposure of data to
unauthorized individuals.

4. Anti-virus software:

Up-to-date, properly configured anti-virus software is essential. While we have server-side anti-
virus software on our network computers, you still need it on the client side (your computer).

5. Firewalls:

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 Which are being secure by the client side and also on the server side. It is an important to keep secure
files by firewalls.

6. Anti-virus products inspect files on your computer and in email. Firewall software and
hardware monitor communications between your computer and the outside
world. That is essential for any networked computer.
7. Software updates:

It is critical to keep software up to date, especially the operating system, anti-virus and anti-
spyware, email and browser software. The newest versions will contain fixes for discovered
vulnerabilities.

Almost all anti-virus have automatic update features (including SAV). Keeping the "signatures"
(digital patterns) of malicious software detectors up-to-date is essential for these products to be
effective.

8. Keep secure backups:

Even if you take all these security steps, bad things can still happen. Be prepared for the worst
by making backup copies of critical data, and keeping those backup copies in a separate,

secure location. For example, use supplemental hard drives, CDs/DVDs, or flash
drives to store critical, hard-to-replace data.

9. Report problems:

If you believe that your computer or any data on it has been compromised, your should make
a information security incident report. That is required by University policy for all data on our
systems, and legally required for health, education, financial and any other kind of record
containing identifiable personal information.

Benefits of secure computing:

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 Protect-yourself-Civilliability:
You may be held legally liable to compensate a third party should they experience financial
damage or distress as a result of their personal data being stolen from you or leaked by you.
 Protect-your-credibility-Compliance:
You may require compliancy with the Data Protection Act, the FSA, SOX or other
regulatory standards. Each of these bodies stipulates that certain measures be taken to
protect the data on your network.
 Protect-your-reputation-Spam:
A common use for infected systems is to join them to a botnet (a collection of infected
machines which takes orders from a command server) and use them to send out spam. This
spam can be traced back to you, your server could be blacklisted and you could be unable to
send email.
 Protect-your-income-advantage:
There are a number of “hackers-for-hire” advertising their services on the internet selling
their skills in breaking into company’s servers to steal client databases, proprietary software,
merger and acquisition information, personnel detailset al.
 Protect-your-business-Blackmail:
A seldom-reported source of income for “hackers” is to·break into your server, change all
your passwords and lock you out of it. The password is then sold back to you. Note: the
“hackers” may implant a backdoor program on your server so that they can repeat the
exercise at will.
 Protect-your-investment-Free-storage:
Your server’s harddrive space is used (or sold on) to house the hacker's video clips, music
collections, pirated software or worse. Your server or computer then becomes continuously
slow and your internet connection speeds deteriorate due to the number of people
connecting to your server in order to download the offered wares.

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 CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE SURVEY

2.1 STATISTICAL FEATURES

AUTHORS: C. Chen, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Xiang, W. Zhou, and G. Min

Twitter spam has become a critical problem nowadays. Recent works focus on applying machine
learning techniques for Twitter spam detection, which make use of the statistical features of
tweets. In our labeled tweets data set, however, we observe that the statistical properties of spam
tweets vary over time, and thus, the performance of existing machine learning-based classifiers
decreases. This issue is referred to as “Twitter Spam Drift”. In order to tackle this problem, we
first carry out a deep analysis on the statistical features of one million spam tweets and one
million non-spam tweets, and then propose a novel L fun scheme. The proposed scheme can
discover “changed” spam tweets from unlabeled tweets and incorporate them into classifier's
training process. A number of experiments are performed to evaluate the proposed scheme. The
results show that our proposed L fun scheme can significantly improve the spam detection
accuracy in real-world scenarios.

2) Automatically identifying fake news in popular Twitter threads

AUTHORS: C. Buntain and J. Gol beck

Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders
experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or "fake news," present in
these platforms. This paper develops a method for automating fake news detection on Twitter by
learning to predict accuracy assessments in two credibility-focused Twitter datasets:

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CREDBANK, a crowdsourced dataset of accuracy assessments for events in Twitter, and
PHEME, a dataset of potential rumors in Twitter and journalistic assessments of their accuracies.
We apply this method to Twitter content sourced from BuzzFeed's fake news dataset and show
models trained against crowdsourced workers outperform models based on journalists'
assessment and models trained on a pooled dataset of both crowdsourced workers and journalists.
All three datasets, aligned into a uniform format, are also publicly available. A feature analysis
then identifies features that are most predictive for crowdsourced and journalistic accuracy
assessments, results of which are consistent with prior work. We close with a discussion
contrasting accuracy and credibility and why models of non-experts outperform models of
journalists for fake news detection in Twitter.

3) A performance evaluation of machine learning-based streaming spam tweets detection

AUTHORS: C. Chen, J. Zhang, Y. Xie, Y. Xiang,W. Zhou, M. M. Hassan, A. AlElaiwi, and M.

Alrubaian

The popularity of Twitter attracts more and more spammers. Spammers send unwanted tweets to
Twitter users to promote websites or services, which are harmful to normal users. In order to stop
spammers, researchers have proposed a number of mechanisms. The focus of recent works is on
the application of machine learning techniques into Twitter spam detection. However, tweets are
retrieved in a streaming way, and Twitter provides the Streaming API for developers and
researchers to access public tweets in real time. There lacks a performance evaluation of existing
machine learning-based streaming spam detection methods. In this paper, we bridged the gap by
carrying out a performance evaluation, which was from three different aspects of data, feature,
and model. A big ground-truth of over 600 million public tweets was created by using a
commercial URL-based security tool. For real-time spam detection, we further extracted 12
lightweight features for tweet representation. Spam detection was then transformed to a binary
classification problem in the feature space and can be solved by conventional machine learning
algorithms. We evaluated the impact of different factors to the spam detection performance,
which included spam to nonspam ratio, feature discretization, training data size, data sampling,

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time-related data, and machine learning algorithms. The results show the streaming spam tweet
detection is still a big challenge and a robust detection technique should take into account the
three aspects of data, feature, and model.

4) A model-based approach for identifying spammers in social networks

AUTHORS: F. Fathaliani and M. Bouguessa

In this paper, we view the task of identifying spammers in social networks from a mixture
modeling perspective, based on which we devise a principled unsupervised approach to detect
spammers. In our approach, we first represent each user of the social network with a feature
vector that reflects its behaviour and interactions with other participants. Next, based on the
estimated users feature vectors, we propose a statistical framework that uses the Dirichlet
distribution in order to identify spammers. The proposed approach is able to automatically
discriminate between spammers and legitimate users, while existing unsupervised approaches
require human intervention in order to set informal threshold parameters to detect spammers.
Furthermore, our approach is general in the sense that it can be applied to different online social
sites. To demonstrate the suitability of the proposed method, we conducted experiments on real
data extracted from Instagram and Twitter.

5) Spam detection of Twitter traffic: A framework based on random forests and non-
uniform feature sampling

AUTHORS: C. Meda, E. Ragusa, C. Gianoglio, R. Zunino, A. Ottaviano, E. Scillia, and R.

Surlinelli

Law Enforcement Agencies cover a crucial role in the analysis of open data and need effective
techniques to filter troublesome information. In a real scenario, Law Enforcement Agencies
analyze Social Networks, i.e. Twitter, monitoring events and profiling accounts. Unfortunately,

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between the huge amount of internet users, there are people that use microblogs for harassing
other people or spreading malicious contents. Users' classification and spammers' identification
is a useful technique for relieve Twitter traffic from uninformative content. This work proposes a
framework that exploits a non-uniform feature sampling inside a gray box Machine Learning
System, using a variant of the Random Forests Algorithm to identify spammers inside Twitter
traffic. Experiments are made on a popular Twitter dataset and on a new dataset of Twitter users.
The new provided Twitter dataset is made up of users labeled as spammers or legitimate users,
described by 54 features. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of enriched feature
sampling method

2.1.1 EXISTING SYSTEM

 Tingminet al. provide a survey of new methods and techniques to identify Twitter spam
detection. The above survey presents a comparative study of the current approaches.
 On the other hand, S. J. Somanet. al. conducted a survey on different behaviors exhibited
by spammers on Twitter social network. The study also provides a literature review that
recognizes the existence of spammers on Twitter social network.
 Despite all the existing studies, there is still a gap in the existing literature. Therefore, to
bridge the gap, we review state-of-the-art in the spammer detection and fake user
identification on Twitter

DISADVANTAGES EXISTING SYSTEM

 No efficient methods used.

 No real time data’s used.
 More complex

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 CHAPTER 3

SYSTEM DESIGN & METHODOLOGY

3.1 PROPOSED SYSTEM

 The aim of this paper is to identify fake user detection on Twitter and to present a
framework by classifying these approaches into several categories. For classification, we
have identified four means of reporting spammers that can be helpful in identifying fake
identities of users. Spammers can be identified based on: (i) fake content, (ii) URL based
spam detection, (iii) detecting spam in trending topics, and (iv) fake user identification.
 Moreover, the analysis also shows that machine learning-based techniques can be
effective for identifying fake user on Twitter. However, the selection of the most feasible
techniques and methods is highly dependent on the available data.

3.2 ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

 This study includes machine learning methodology proposed using real time datasets and
with different characteristics and accomplishments.
 The proposed system is more effective and accurate than other existing systems.
 Tested with real time data’s.

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3.3 ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM

Generate tweets
SPAMMER

TWITTER
Get sample tweets
from Twitter
ADMIN
Pre-processing

Analysis Spam tweets

from the Twitter

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3.4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:
 System : Pentium Dual Core.
 Hard Disk : 120 GB.
 Monitor : 15’’ LED
 Input Devices : Keyboard, Mouse
 Ram : 4 GB.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
 Operating system: Windows 7/10.
 Coding Language :Python
 Tool : Pi-champ
 Database : MYSQL

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 CHAPTER 4

SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT

4.1 SOFTWARE LANGUAGE

Python:

Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is

designed to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages
use punctuation, and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.

 Python is Interpreted − Python is processed at runtime by the interpreter. You do not

need to compile your program before executing it. This is similar to PERL and PHP.

 Python is Interactive − You can actually sit at a Python prompt and interact with the
interpreter directly to write your programs.

 Python is Object-Oriented − Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of

programming that encapsulates code within objects.

 Python is a Beginner's Language − Python is a great language for the beginner-level

programmers and supports the development of a wide range of applications from simple
text processing to WWW browsers to games.

History of Python

Python was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the
National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.

Python is derived from many other languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, C++, Algol-68,
SmallTalk, and Unix shell and other scripting languages.

Python is copyrighted. Like Perl, Python source code is now available under the GNU General
Public License (GPL).

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Python is now maintained by a core development team at the institute, although Guido van
Rossum still holds a vital role in directing its progress.

Python Features

Python's features include −

 Easy-to-learn − Python has few keywords, simple structure, and a clearly defined syntax.
This allows the student to pick up the language quickly.

 Easy-to-read − Python code is more clearly defined and visible to the eyes.

 Easy-to-maintain − Python's source code is fairly easy-to-maintain.

 A broad standard library − Python's bulk of the library is very portable and cross-
platform compatible on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh.

 Interactive Mode − Python has support for an interactive mode which allows interactive
testing and debugging of snippets of code.

 Portable − Python can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same
interface on all platforms.

 Extendable − You can add low-level modules to the Python interpreter. These modules
enable programmers to add to or customize their tools to be more efficient.

 Databases − Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.

 GUI Programming − Python supports GUI applications that can be created and ported
to many system calls, libraries and windows systems, such as Windows MFC, Macintosh,
and the X Window system of Unix.

 Scalable − Python provides a better structure and support for large programs than shell
scripting.

Apart from the above-mentioned features, Python has a big list of good features, few are listed
below −

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  It supports functional and structured programming methods as well as OOP.

 It can be used as a scripting language or can be compiled to byte-code for building large
applications.

 It provides very high-level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.

 It supports automatic garbage collection.

 It can be easily integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA, and Java.

Python is available on a wide variety of platforms including Linux and Mac OS X. Let's
understand how to set up our Python environment.

Getting Python

The most up-to-date and current source code, binaries, documentation, news, etc., is available on
the official website of Python https://www.python.org.

Windows Installation

Here are the steps to install Python on Windows machine.

 Open a Web browser and go to https://www.python.org/downloads/.

 Follow the link for the Windows installer python-XYZ.msifile where XYZ is the version
you need to install.

 To use this installer python-XYZ.msi, the Windows system must support Microsoft
Installer 2.0. Save the installer file to your local machine and then run it to find out if
your machine supports MSI.

 Run the downloaded file. This brings up the Python install wizard, which is really easy to
use. Just accept the default settings, wait until the install is finished, and you are done.

The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some
definite differences between the languages.

First Python Program

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Let us execute programs in different modes of programming.

Interactive Mode Programming

Invoking the interpreter without passing a script file as a parameter brings up the following
prompt −

$ python

Python2.4.3(#1,Nov112010,13:34:43)

[GCC 4.1.220080704(RedHat4.1.2-48)] on linux2

Type"help","copyright","credits"or"license"for more information.

>>>

Type the following text at the Python prompt and press the Enter −

>>>print"Hello, Python!"

If you are running new version of Python, then you would need to use print statement with
parenthesis as in print ("Hello, Python!");. However in Python version 2.4.3, this produces the
following result −

Hello, Python!

Script Mode Programming

Invoking the interpreter with a script parameter begins execution of the script and continues until
the script is finished. When the script is finished, the interpreter is no longer active.

Let us write a simple Python program in a script. Python files have extension .py. Type the
following source code in a test.py file −

print"Hello, Python!"

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We assume that you have Python interpreter set in PATH variable. Now, try to run this program
as follows −

$ python test.py

This produces the following result −

Hello, Python!

Flask Framework:

Flask is a web application framework written in Python. Armin Ronacher, who leads an
international group of Python enthusiasts named Pocco, develops it. Flask is based on Werkzeug
WSGI toolkit and Jinja2 template engine. Both are Pocco projects.

Http protocol is the foundation of data communication in world wide web. Different methods of
data retrieval from specified URL are defined in this protocol.

The following table summarizes different http methods −

Sr.No Methods & Description

1 GET

Sends data in unencrypted form to the server. Most common method.

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2 HEAD

Same as GET, but without response body

3 POST

Used to send HTML form data to server. Data received by POST method is not
cached by server.

4 PUT

Replaces all current representations of the target resource with the uploaded content.

5 DELETE

Removes all current representations of the target resource given by a URL

By default, the Flask route responds to the GET requests. However, this preference can be
altered by providing methods argument to route() decorator.

In order to demonstrate the use of POST method in URL routing, first let us create an HTML
form and use the POST method to send form data to a URL.

Save the following script as login.html

<html>

<body>

<formaction="http://localhost:5000/login"method="post">

<p>Enter Name:</p>

<p><inputtype="text"name="nm"/></p>

<p><inputtype="submit"value="submit"/></p>

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</form>

</body>

</html>

Now enter the following script in Python shell.

from flask importFlask, redirect,url_for, request

app=Flask( name )

@app.route('/success/<name>')

def success(name):

return'welcome %s'% name

@app.route('/login',methods=['POST','GET'])

def login():

ifrequest.method=='POST':

user=request.form['nm']

return redirect(url_for('success',name= user))

else:

user=request.args.get('nm')

return redirect(url_for('success',name= user))

if name ==' main ':

app.run(debug =True)

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After the development server starts running, open login.html in the browser, enter name in the
text field and click Submit.

Form data is POSTed to the URL in action clause of form tag.

http://localhost/login is mapped to the login() function. Since the server has received data
by POST method, value of ‘nm’ parameter obtained from the form data is obtained by −

user = request.form['nm']

It is passed to ‘/success’ URL as variable part. The browser displays a welcome message in the
window.

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Change the method parameter to ‘GET’ in login.html and open it again in the browser. The
data received on server is by the GET method. The value of ‘nm’ parameter is now obtained by
−

User = request.args.get(‘nm’)

Here, args is dictionary object containing a list of pairs of form parameter and its corresponding
value. The value corresponding to ‘nm’ parameter is passed on to ‘/success’ URL as before.

4.2 MODULES:

 Admin Module
 Data Collection
 Train and Test
 Machine Learning Technique
 Detection of Fake User

4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTIONS:

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Admin Module: In the first module, we develop the Online Social Networking (OSN) system
module. We build up the system with the feature of Online Social Networking System, Twitter.
Where, this module is used for admin login with their authentication.
Data Collection:
We will be using a Python Library called Tweepy to connect to the Twitter API and collect the
data. We download tweets containing certain key words, to incorporate the words or hash tags
that contain relevant keyword related to fake users.
Some of the most important fields are:
 text, which contains the text included in the tweet.
 created_at, which is a timestamp of when the tweet was created.
 user, which contains information about the user that created the tweet, like the username
and user id.

Train and Test:

 We present the proposed framework for metadata features are extracted from available
additional information regarding the tweets of a user, whereas content-based features
aim to observe the message posting behavior of a user and the quality of the text that the
user uses in posts.

4.4 Machine Learning Technique:

 The number of features, which are associated with tweet content, and the characteristics
of users are recognized for the detection of spammers. These features are considered as
the characteristics of machine learning process for categorizing users, i.e., to know
whether they are spammers or not.
 In order to recognize the approach for detecting spammers on Twitter, the labelled
collection in pre-classification of fake user and legitimate user has been done. Next, those
steps are taken which are needed for the construction of labeled collection and acquired
various desired properties.

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  In other words, steps which are essential to be examined to develop the collection of
users that can be labelled as fake user or legitimate user. At the end, user attributes are
identified based on their behavior, e.g., who they interact with and what is the frequency
of their interaction.
 In order to confirm this instinct, features of users of the labelled collection has been
checked. Two attribute sets are considered, i.e., content attributes and user behavior
attributes, to differentiate one user from the other.

4.5 Detection of Fake User:

 In this module, we implement the collection of tweets with respect to trending topics on
Twitter. After storing the tweets in a particular file format, the tweets are subsequently
analyzed.
 Labelling of fake user is performed to check through all datasets that are available to
detect the malignant.
 Feature extraction separates the characteristics construct based on the language model
that uses language as a tool and helps in determining whether the user is fake or not.
 The classification of data set is performed by shortlisting the set of tweets that is
described by the set of features provided to the classifier to instruct the model and to
acquire the knowledge for spam detection.

 The fake user detection uses the classification technique to accept tweets as the input and
classify the fake user and legitimate user.

4.6 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS

Requirement analysis, also called requirement engineering, is the process of determining
user expectations for a new modified product. It encompasses the tasks that determine the need
for analysing, documenting, validating and managing software or system requirements. The
requirements should be documentable, actionable, measurable, testable and traceable related to
identified business needs or opportunities and define to a level of detail, sufficient for system
design.

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4.7 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
It is a technical specification requirement for the software products. It is the first step in
the requirement analysis process which lists the requirements of particular software systems
including functional, performance and security requirements. The function of the system depends
mainly on the quality hardware used to run the software with given functionality.

Usability

It specifies how easy the system must be use. It is easy to ask queries in any format which is
short or long, porter stemming algorithm stimulates the desired response for user.

Robustness

It refers to a program that performs well not only under ordinary conditions but also
under unusual conditions. It is the ability of the user to cope with errors for irrelevant queries
during execution.

Security

The state of providing protected access to resource is security. The system provides good
security and unauthorized users cannot access the system there by providing high security.

Reliability

It is the probability of how often the software fails. The measurement is often expressed
in MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). The requirement is needed in order to ensure that the
processes work correctly and completely without being aborted. It can handle any load and
survive and survive and even capable of working around any failure.

Compatibility

It is supported by version above all web browsers. Using any web servers like localhost
makes the system real-time experience.

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Flexibility

The flexibility of the project is provided in such a way that is has the ability to run on
different environments being executed by different users.

Safety

Safety is a measure taken to prevent trouble. Every query is processed in a secured

manner without letting others to know one’s personal information.

4.7 NON- FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Portability
It is the usability of the same software in different environments. The project can be run
in any operating system.

Performance
These requirements determine the resources required, time interval, throughput and
everything that deals with the performance of the system.

Accuracy
The result of the requesting query is very accurate and high speed of retrieving
information. The degree of security provided by the system is high and effective.

Maintainability
Project is simple as further updates can be easily done without affecting its stability.
Maintainability basically defines that how easy it is to maintain the system. It means that how
easy it is to maintain the system, analyse, change and test the application. Maintainability of this
project is simple as further updates can be easily done without affecting its maintenance.

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 CHAPTER 5

SYSTEM DESIGN AND TESTING PLAN

5.1 INPUT DESIGN

The input design is the link between the information system and the user. It comprises the
developing specification and procedures for data preparation and those steps are necessary to put
transaction data in to a usable form for processing can be achieved by inspecting the computer to
read data from a written or printed document or it can occur by having people keying the data
directly into the system. The design of input focuses on controlling the amount of input required,
controlling the errors, avoiding delay, avoiding extra steps and keeping the process simple. The
input is designed in such a way so that it provides security and ease of use with retaining the
privacy. Input Design considered the following things:

 What data should be given as input?

 How the data should be arranged or coded?
 The dialog to guide the operating personnel in providing input.
 Methods for preparing input validations and steps to follow when error occur.

5.2 OUTPUT DESIGN

A quality output is one, which meets the requirements of the end user and presents the
information clearly. In any system results of processing are communicated to the users and to
other system through outputs. In output design it is determined how the information is to be
displaced for immediate need and also the hard copy output. It is the most important and direct
source information to the user. Efficient and intelligent output design improves the system’s
relationship to help user decision-making.

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The output form of an information system should accomplish one or more of the following
objectives.

 Convey information about past activities, current status or projections of the

 Future.
 Signal important events, opportunities, problems, or warnings.
 Trigger an action.
 Confirm an action.

FEASIBILITY STUDY

The feasibility of the project is analyzed in this phase and business proposal is put forth
with a very general plan for the project and some cost estimates. During system analysis the
feasibility study of the proposed system is to be carried out. This is to ensure that the proposed
system is not a burden to the company. For feasibility analysis, some understanding of the major
requirements for the system is essential.

Three key considerations involved in the feasibility analysis are

 ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY
 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
 SOCIAL FEASIBILITY

ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY

This study is carried out to check the economic impact that the system will have on
the organization. The amount of fund that the company can pour into the research and
development of the system is limited. The expenditures must be justified. Thus the developed
system as well within the budget and this was achieved because most of the technologies used
are freely available. Only the customized products had to be purchased. This study is carried out
to check the technical feasibility, that is, the technical requirements of the system. Any system

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developed must not have a high demand on the available technical resources. This will lead to
high demands on the available technical resources. This will lead to high demands being placed
on the client. The developed system must have a modest requirement, as only minimal or null
changes are required for implementing this system.

SOCIAL FEASIBILITY

The aspect of study is to check the level of acceptance of the system by the user. This
includes the process of training the user to use the system efficiently. The user must not feel
threatened by the system, instead must accept it as a necessity. The level of acceptance by the
users solely depends on the methods that are employed to educate the user about the system and
to make him familiar with it. His level of confidence must be raised so that he is also able to
make some constructive criticism, which is welcomed, as he is the final user of the system.

5.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM:

1. The DFD is also called as bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism that can be
used to represent a system in terms of input data to the system, various processing carried
out on this data, and the output data is generated by this system.
2. The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modeling tools. It is used to
model the system components. These components are the system process, the data used
by the process, an external entity that interacts with the system and the information flows
in the system.
3. DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it is modified by a
series of transformations. It is a graphical technique that depicts information flow and the
transformations that are applied as data moves from input to output.
4. DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a system at any
level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that represent increasing
information flow and functional detail.

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 CHAPTER 6

UML DIAGRAMS
UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. UML is a standardized general-purpose
modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed,
and was created by, the Object Management Group.
The goal is for UML to become a common language for creating models of object
oriented computer software. In its current form UML is comprised of two major components: a
Meta-model and a notation. In the future, some form of method or process may also be added to;
or associated with, UML.
The Unified Modeling Language is a standard language for specifying, Visualization,
Constructing and documenting the artifacts of software system, as well as for business modeling
and other non-software systems.
The UML represents a collection of best engineering practices that have proven
successful in the modeling of large and complex systems.
The UML is a very important part of developing objects oriented software and the
software development process. The UML uses mostly graphical notations to express the design
of software projects.

GOALS:
The Primary goals in the design of the UML are as follows:
1. Provide users a ready-to-use, expressive visual modeling Language so that they can
develop and exchange meaningful models.
2. Provide extendibility and specialization mechanisms to extend the core concepts.
3. Be independent of particular programming languages and development process.

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 4. Provide a formal basis for understanding the modeling language.
5. Encourage the growth of OO tools market.
6. Support higher level development concepts such as collaborations, frameworks, patterns
and components.
7. Integrate best practices.

6.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM:

A use case diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a type of behavioral
diagram defined by and created from a Use-case analysis. Its purpose is to present a graphical
overview of the functionality provided by a system in terms of actors, their goals (represented as
use cases), and any dependencies between those use cases. The main purpose of a use case
diagram is to show what system functions are performed for which actor. Roles of the actors in
the system can be depicted.

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6.2 CLASS DIAGRAM:

In software engineering, a class diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a type of
static structure diagram that describes the structure of a system by showing the system's classes,
their attributes, operations (or methods), and the relationships among the classes. It explains
which class contains information.

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6.3 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:

A sequence diagram in Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a kind of interaction diagram that
shows how processes operate with one another and in what order. It is a construct of a Message
Sequence Chart. Sequence diagrams are sometimes called event diagrams, event scenarios, and
timing diagrams.

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6.4 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:

Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and actions
with support for choice, iteration and concurrency. In the Unified Modeling Language, activity
diagrams can be used to describe the business and operational step-by-step workflows of
components in a system. An activity diagram shows the overall flow of control.

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6.7 SYSTEM TESTING

The purpose of testing is to discover errors. Testing is the process of trying to

discover every conceivable fault or weakness in a work product. It provides a way
to check the functionality of components, sub assemblies, assemblies and/or a
finished product It is the process of exercising software with the intent of ensuring
that the

Software system meets its requirements and user expectations and does not fail in
an unacceptable manner. There are various types of test. Each test type addresses a
specific testing requirement.

TYPES OF TESTS

UNIT TESTING

Unit testing involves the design of test cases that validate that the internal program logic
is functioning properly, and that program inputs produce valid outputs. All decision branches and
internal code flow should be validated. It is the testing of individual software units of the
application .it is done after the completion of an individual unit before integration. This is a
structural testing, that relies on knowledge of its construction and is invasive. Unit tests perform
basic tests at component level and test a specific business process, application, and/or system
configuration. Unit tests ensure that each unique path of a business process performs accurately
to the documented specifications and contains clearly defined inputs and expected results.

Functional tests provide systematic demonstrations that functions tested are available as
specified by the business and technical requirements, system documentation, and user manuals.

Functional testing is centered on the following items:

Valid Input : identified classes of valid input must be accepted.

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Invalid Input : identified classes of invalid input must be rejected.

Functions : identified functions must be exercised.

Output : identified classes of application outputs must be exercised.

Systems/Procedures: interfacing systems or procedures must be invoked.

Organization and preparation of functional tests is focused on requirements, key functions, or

special test cases. In addition, systematic coverage pertaining to identify Business process flows;
data fields, predefined processes, and successive processes must be considered for testing.
Before functional testing is complete, additional tests are identified and the effective value of
current tests is determined.

System testing ensures that the entire integrated software system meets requirements. It tests a
configuration to ensure known and predictable results. An example of system testing is the
configuration oriented system integration test. System testing is based on process descriptions
and flows, emphasizing pre-driven process links and integration points.

White Box Testing is a testing in which in which the software tester has knowledge of the
inner workings, structure and language of the software, or at least its purpose. It is purpose. It is
used to test areas that cannot be reached from a black box level.

Black Box Testing is testing the software without any knowledge of the inner workings,
structure or language of the module being tested. Black box tests, as most other kinds of tests,
must be written from a definitive source document, such as specification or requirements
document, such as specification or requirements document. It is a testing in which the software

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under test is treated, as a black box .you cannot “see” into it. The test provides inputs and
responds to outputs without considering how the software works.

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Software integration testing is the incremental integration testing of two or more integrated
software components on a single platform to produce failures caused by interface defects.

The task of the integration test is to check that components or software applications, e.g.
components in a software system or – one step up – software applications at the company level –
interact without error.

Test Results: All the test cases mentioned above passed successfully. No defects encountered.

Acceptance Testing
User Acceptance Testing is a critical phase of any project and requires significant
participation by the end user. It also ensures that the system meets the functional requirements.

Test Results: All the test cases mentioned above passed successfully. No defects enc

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 CHAPTER 8

CONCLUSION

In this paper, we performed a review of techniques used for detecting spammers on Twitter. In
addition, we also present taxonomy of Twitter spam detection approach es and categorized them
as fake content detection, URL based spam detection, spam detection in trending topics, and fake
user detection techniques. We also compared the presented techniques based on several features,
such as user features, content features, graph features, structure features, and time features.
Moreover, the techniques were also compared in terms of their specified goals and datasets used.
It is anticipated that the presented review will help researchers find the information on state-of-
the-art Twitter spam detection techniques in a consolidated form. Despite the development of
efficient and effective approaches for the spam detection and fake user identification on Twitter
[34], there are still certain open areas that require considerable attention by the researchers. The
issues are briefly highlighted as under :False news identification on social media networks isan
issue that needs to be explored because of the serious repercussions of such news at individual as
well as collective level [25]. Another associated topic that is worth investigating is the
identification of rumor sources on social media. Although a few studies based on statistical
methods have already been conducted to detect the sources of rumors, more sophisticated
approaches, e.g., social network based approaches, can be applied because of their proven
effectiveness.

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