Recently, online video chat services are becoming increasingly popular. While experiencing tremendous growth, online video chat services have also become yet another spamming target. Unlike spam propagated via traditional medium like emails and social networks, we find that spam propagated via online video chat services is able to draw much larger attention from the users. We have conducted sev...

This essay argues that amidst the superfluous clutter of spam is a credible ethos combining poetic consolation early modern sonneteer with indulgent excesses capitalist precariat. William Shakespeare’s Will sonnets (135 and 136) are explored as instances in they illustrate spam’s peculiar objective to deploy itself into fields lively but redundant engagement. While experimenting conventions son...

Spam email, is the practice of frequently sending unwanted email messages, usually with commercial content, in large quantities to a set of indiscriminate email accounts. However, since spammers continuously improve their techniques in order to compromise the spam filters, building a spam filter that can be incrementally learned and adapted became an active research field. Researches employed m...

Internet has become an important part of our lives which is used for nearly all purposes. Internet is like an umbrella providing various services at a single time. One of the important uses of this is, sharing of information. E-mails are the most commonly used utility of internet for communication. The emails contain some unsolicited mails called spam which create the problems for users .Detect...

Researchers initially have addressed the problem of spam detection as a text classification or categorization problem. However, as spammers’ continue to develop new techniques and the type of email content becomes more disparate, text-based anti-spam approaches alone are not sufficiently enough in preventing spam. In an attempt to defeat the anti-spam development technologies, spammers have rec...

To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing’s impact has studied either the spam being sent or the website lifetimes. In this paper, we examine both phishing websites and the associated spam to gauge the overall effectiveness of phishing attack and defense. We find that while the bulk of spam is ...

Spam has emerged as a major problem in recent years. The most widely recognized form of spam, is email spam. The accounts which contain spam messages must waste time deleting annoying and possibly offensive message. In this paper, we present a variety of machine learning algorithms to identify spam in e-mail accounts. We design classifier model to automatically determine spam in the accounts so...

Unsolicited email (spam) is still a problem for users of the email service. Even though current email anti-spam solutions filter most spam emails, some still are delivered to the inbox of users. A special class of spam emails advertises websites, e.g., online dating sites or online pharmacies. The success rate of this kind of advertising is rather low, however, as sending an email does only inv...

Email is an increasingly important and ubiquitous mean of communication, both facilitating contact between individuals and enabling rises in the productivity of organizations. However, the relentless rising of automatic unauthorized emails, also known as spam, is eroding away much of the attractiveness of email communication. Most of the attention dedicated to spam detection has focused on the ...