Social Phishing
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چکیده
Email spam: unsolicited emails for the purpose of advertisement or committing fraud. Phishing: electronic fraud based on social engineering. Phisher: fraudsters who commit phishing crimes. Phishing site: web sites created by phishers to steal sensitive information from users. Anti-phishing: efforts taken from multiple perspectives to combat phishing crimes. Machine learning: the design and development of algorithms that takes as input empirical data, and outputs patterns and predictions for future data.
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