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138 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijitee.B83031210220 DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.B8303.1210220 Journal Website: www.ijitee.org Homograph Attack Warning System

2020; Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.35940/ijitee.b8303.1210220

2278-3075

Muhammad Uwais, Arpit Kumar Sharma, Akhil Kumar, Lakshya Veer Singh,

Spam and Phishing Detection

As we are living in the era of social media apps, from Facebook to WhatsApp which are using everywhere. All these apps are being used by everyone. Although this may seem to be a very good sign that we are moving to the new era of “THE DIGITAL WORLD” but it may have some consequences like spreading of artificial news, crack of personal information like credit card, debit card, passwords or digital wallets etc. The users believe that every message shared on social media might be true. So, to protect our internet users we have come up with an idea that provides the ability to discover homonym attack and malicious links which warns the user before they can access the site. The Social engineering attacks have stirred terribly removed from this like fraudulent attack within which we tend to completely rely upon our browser to present north American nation a warning. This situation may worry some computer users, but we generally do not think much about when we perform any action on our mobile phones. But all these so called to do steps are not the right way to deal with these situation .The primary commitments of this paper are understanding a working meaning of IDN satirizing assaults and how those IDN spaces are being introduced in the URL bar in some Internet programs, proposing a working arrangement that reports IDN ridiculing assaults which convert URL into Unicode and punycode.