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Artificial Intelligence: Project Proposal On Spam Filtering

This document proposes a project on spam filtering using artificial intelligence. It begins by defining spam emails as unsolicited bulk emails that are sent to many recipients. The motivation for the project is that spam poses a major threat by potentially exposing users to malware and phishing schemes. Currently, approaches to spam detection include blacklisting, detecting bulk emails, scanning headings, and greylisting. However, each approach has limitations. The document proposes that combining current techniques with content-based filtering, which analyzes the content of emails, could more effectively identify spam emails. The goal of the proposed project is to analyze different content-based filtering methods and evaluate their effectiveness.

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Artificial Intelligence: Project Proposal On Spam Filtering

This document proposes a project on spam filtering using artificial intelligence. It begins by defining spam emails as unsolicited bulk emails that are sent to many recipients. The motivation for the project is that spam poses a major threat by potentially exposing users to malware and phishing schemes. Currently, approaches to spam detection include blacklisting, detecting bulk emails, scanning headings, and greylisting. However, each approach has limitations. The document proposes that combining current techniques with content-based filtering, which analyzes the content of emails, could more effectively identify spam emails. The goal of the proposed project is to analyze different content-based filtering methods and evaluate their effectiveness.

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Artificial Intelligence

Project Proposal
on
Spam Filtering

Submitted By: Ansa Liaqat


Aqsa Ameer
Faiza Mushtaq
Submitted to: Mam Sidra Ijaz
Submission Date: 21st Oct,2019
Semester: V
Introduction
Spam Mails are one among the foremost common and high problem within the internet which may bring
large damage to organizations similarly as for individual internet user. Spam email additionally referred
to as junk email or unsought bulk email that is causing identical messages to various recipients. It takes
plenty of time to spot, arrange and delete these mails. There can also be an opportunity of counting a
legitimate mail as a spam mail.

Motivation
Email has become one of the most important forms of communication. Spam is one of the major
threats posed to email users. In 2013, 69.6% of all email flows were spam.[2] Links in spam
emails may lead to users to websites with malware or phishing schemes, which can access and
disrupt the receiver’s computer system. Therefore, an effective spam filtering technology is a
significant contribution to the sustainability of the cyberspace and to our society.
There are currently different approaches to spam detection. These approaches include
blacklisting, detecting bulk emails, scanning message headings, greylisting, and content-based
filtering :

 Blacklisting is a technique that identifies IP addresses that send large amounts of spam.
These IP addresses are added to a Domain Name System-Based Blackhole List and future
email from IP addresses on the list are rejected. However, spammers are circumventing
these lists by using larger numbers of IP addresses. 
 Detecting bulk emails is another way to filter spam. This method uses the number of
recipients to determine if an email is spam or not. However, many legitimate emails can
have high traffic volumes. 
 Scanning message headings is a fairly reliable way to detect spam. Program written by
spammers generate headings of emails. Sometimes, these headings have errors that cause
them to not fit standard heading regulations. When these headings have errors, it is a sign
that the email is probably spam. However, spammers are learning from their errors and
making these mistakes less often
 Greylisting is a method that involves rejecting the email and sending an error message
back to the sender. Spam programs will ignore this and not resend the email, while
humans are more likely to resend the email. However, this process is annoying to humans
and is not an ideal solution.
 Current spam techniques could be paired with content-based spam filtering methods to
increase effectiveness. Content-based methods analyze the content of the email to determine if
the email is spam. The goal of our project was to analyze determine their effectiveness as
content-based spam filters.  

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