the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

The term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. Estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. It should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

Email spam is one of the unsolved problems of the today's Internet, annoying individual users and bringing financial damage to companies. Among the approaches developed to stop spam emails, filtering is a popular and important one. Common uses for email filters include organizing incoming email and computer viruses and removal of spam. As spammers periodically find new ways to bypass spam filte...

E-mail is one of the most popular and frequently used ways of communication due to its worldwide accessibility, relatively fast message transfer, and low sending cost. The flaws in the e-mail protocols and the increasing amount of electronic business and financial transactions directly contribute to the increase in e-mail-based threats. Email spam is one of the major problems of the today’s Int...

The spam has now become a significant security issue and a massive drain on financial resources. In this paper, a spam filter is introduced, which works at the server side. The proposed filter is a combination of antispam techniques. The integrated solution create a spam filtering system which is more robust and effective than each of the comprising techniques. The task of proposed filter is to...

Spam is pervasive across many types of electronic communication, including email, instant messaging, and social networks. To reach more users and increase financial gain, many spammers now use multiple content-sharing platforms— including online social networks—to disseminate spam. In this paper, we perform a joint analysis of spam in email and social networks. We use spam data from Yahoo’s web...

Spam-reduction techniques have developed rapidly over the last few years, as spam volumes have increased. We believe that no one anti-spam solution is the “right” answer, and that the best approach is a multifaceted one, combining various forms of filtering with infrastructure changes, financial changes, legal recourse, and more, to provide a stronger barrier to spam than can be achieved with o...

ARTICLE INFO Spam is one of the major issue especially email spam, of the todays Internet resulting in financial damage to companies and annoying the users and managing such kind of the mailbox has become a crucial one. These unwanted emails clogs the inbox as well as can be used for various attacks which may destroy user’s information or to reveal his/her identity or data. In this paper we hav...

The security evaluation for Mail Distribution Systems focuses on certification and reliability of sensitive data between mail servers. The need to certify the information conveyed is a result of known weaknesses in the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP). The most important consequence of these weaknesses is the possibility to mislead the recipient, which is achieved via spam (especially email...