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Spam related cyber crimes have become a serious threat to society. Current spam research mainly aims to detect spam more effectively. We believe the identification and disruption of the supporting infrastructure used by spammers is a more effective way of stopping spam than filtering. The termination of spam hosts will greatly reduce the profit a spammer can generate and thwart his ability to s...

With the increasing popularity of a E-mail users, E-mail spam problem growing proportionally. Spam filtering with near duplicate matching scheme is widely discussed in recent years. It is based on a known spam database formed by user feedback which cannot fully catch the evolving nature of spam and also it requires much storage. In view of above drawbacks, we proposed an effective spam detectio...

The effect of spam filtering method based on statistics is not good enough in filtering the new-type spam with synonymous substitution and camouflage, because the method based on statistics ignores the semantic relation between words in the text, and only judges from the word itself. So, a method of spam filtering based on the semantic body is proposed in this paper. The method adopts lexical c...

Now-a-days, mailbox management has become a big task. A large proportion of the emails we receive are spam. These unwanted emails clog the inbox and are very ubiquitous. Here, a new technique for spam detection is presented that makes use of clustering and association rules generated by the Apriori algorithm. Vector space notation is used to represent the emails. The results obtained from exper...

We address the problem of filtering image spam, a rapidly spreading kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into attached images to defeat spam filtering techniques based on the analysis of e-mail’s body text. We propose an approach based on low-level image processing techniques to detect one of the main characterstics of most image spam, namely the use of content obscuring technique...

We provide a model to study the effects of three methods of fighting spam mail, namely (1) increasing the cost of mailing messages, (2) filters, and (3) a do-not-spam registry, on the number of spam messages that users receive, and on the efficiency of the internet (measured by the total number of spam messages spammers send).

This paper studies the problems and threats posed by a type of spam in the blogosphere, called blog comment spam. It explores the challenges introduced by comment spam, generalizing the analysis substantially to any other short text type spam. The authors analyze different high-level features of spam and legitimate comments based on the content of blog postings. The authors use these features t...

The popularity of Twitter greatly depends on the quality and integrity of contents contributed by users. Unfortunately, Twitter has attracted spammers to post spam content which pollutes the community. Social spamming is more successful than traditional methods such as email spamming by using social relationship between users. Detecting spam is the first and very critical step in the battle of ...

Microblogs are one of a growing group of social network tools. Twitter is, at present, one of the most popular forums for microblogging in online social networks, and the fastest growing. Fifty million messages flow through servers, computers, and cell phones on a wide variety of topics exchanged daily. With this considerable volume, Twitter is a natural and obvious target for spreading spam vi...