Efficient Spam Detection using Single Hidden Layer Feed Forward Neural Network

1 Head and Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Vellalar College for Women, Erode, Tamilnadu, India 2 Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Vellalar College for Women, Erode, Tamilnadu, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Recent development in social media, which is one of the crucial communication tools owning to wide spreading of internet technologies. On social network sites, spammers frequently cover themselves by creating fake accounts and hijacking normal user account for personal gain. In today’s era everybody is in online and use social network sites for interaction to gain knowledge for business purpose, studies, politics and many more. But along with positive approaches, it increases the spammers who continuously expose malicious behavior, which leads to great misunderstanding and inconvenience on users social activities. Apart from email, SMS, Links, spammers in social media behave like normal users and they continue to change their spamming strategies to fool non-spam systems. This kind of spam can contribute to degrade the quality of real time search engines unless mechanisms to fight and stop spammers.