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Email Spam Filtering Techniques

This document discusses email spam filtering techniques. It begins with an introduction to what spam is and the problems it causes. It then discusses various spam filtering methods like content-based filtering using machine learning. Content-based filters can be trained on a per-user basis but have disadvantages like spammers evading detection by inserting random words or replacing text with images. Overall, no single technique is perfect and data mining approaches for content-based filtering seem promising.

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Email Spam Filtering Techniques

This document discusses email spam filtering techniques. It begins with an introduction to what spam is and the problems it causes. It then discusses various spam filtering methods like content-based filtering using machine learning. Content-based filters can be trained on a per-user basis but have disadvantages like spammers evading detection by inserting random words or replacing text with images. Overall, no single technique is perfect and data mining approaches for content-based filtering seem promising.

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Email Spam Filtering Techniques

Abstract
Electronic mail is used daily by millions of people to
communicate around the globe and is a mission-critical
application for many businesses. Over the last decade,
unsolicited bulk email has become a major problem for email
users. An overwhelming amount of spam is flowing into
users‟ mailboxes daily. Not only is spam frustrating for most
email users, it strains the IT infrastructure of organizations
and costs businesses billions of dollars in lost productivity.
The necessity of effective spam filters increases. In this
paper, we presented our study on various problems associated
with spam and spam filtering methods, techniques.
Introduction
What is spam?
• Spam also called as Unsolicited Commercial Email
(UCE)
• Involves sending messages by email to numerous
recipients at
• the same time (Mass Emailing).
• Grew exponentially since 1990 but has leveled off
recently andis no longer growing exponentially
• 80% of all spam is sent by less than 200 spammers
Purpose of Spam
• Advertisements
• Pyramid schemes (Multi-Level Marketing)
• Giveaways
• Chain letters
• Political email
• Stock market advice
Spam as a problem
• Consumes computing resources and time
• Reduces the effectiveness of legitimate
• advertising
• Cost Shifting
• Fraud
• Identity Theft
• Consumer Perception
• Global Implications
various methods
• Purchasing /Trading lists with other spammers
• Bots
• Directory harvest attack
• Free Product or Services requiring valid email
address
• News bulletins /Forums
Architecture
Advantages

• It can be trained on a per-user basis

The spam that a user receives is often related


to the online user's activities
Disadvantages
• Insertion of random innocuous words that are
not normally associated with spam
• Replace text with pictures
• Google, by its Gmail email system, performing
an
• OCR to every mid to large size image,
analyzing the text inside
Conclusions

• Spam emails not only consume computing


resources, but can also be frustrating
• Numerous detection techniques exist, but
none is a “good for all scenarios” technique
• Data Mining approaches for content based
spam filtering seem promising
REFERENCES
[1] Miszalska, I., Zabierowski, W., & Napieralski, A. (2007,
February). “Selected Methods of Spam Filtering in Email.”
In CAD Systems in Microelectronics, 2007. CADSM'07. 9th
International Conference-The Experience of Designing and
Applications of (pp. 507-513). IEEE.

[2] Scholar, M. (2010). “Supervised learning approach for


spam classification analysis using data mining tools.”
organization, 2(08), 2760-2766.

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