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This paper investigates the research question if senders of large amounts of irrelevant or unsolicited information - commonly called "spammers" - distort the network structure of social networks. Two large social networks are analyzed, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 A. Fronzetti Colladon , P. A. Gloor

Email is an increasingly important and ubiquitous means of communication, both facilitating contact between private individuals and enabling rises in the productivity of organizations. However the relentless rise of automatic unauthorized…

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 spam emails still are delivered to the inbox of users. A special class of spam emails…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Alexander Schmidtke , Hans-Joachim Hof

Unsolicited bulk email (aka. spam) is a major problem on the Internet. To counter spam, several techniques, ranging from spam filters to mail protocol extensions like hashcash, have been proposed. In this paper we investigate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Flavio D. Garcia , Jaap-Henk Hoepman

Emails and SMSs are the most popular tools in today communications, and as the increase of emails and SMSs users are increase, the number of spams is also increases. Spam is any kind of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication that gets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Thaer Sahmoud , Mohammad Mikki

Email is one of the most widely used ways to communicate, with millions of people and businesses relying on it to communicate and share knowledge and information on a daily basis. Nevertheless, the rise in email users has occurred a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sultan Zavrak , Seyhmus Yilmaz

We provide an automated graph theoretic method for identifying individual users' trusted networks of friends in cyberspace. We routinely use our social networks to judge the trustworthiness of outsiders, i.e., to decide where to buy our…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani Roychowdhury

Once an email problem, spam has nowadays branched into new territories with disruptive effects. In particular, spam has established itself over the recent years as a ubiquitous, annoying, and sometimes threatening aspect of online social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Nour El-Mawass , Saad Alaboodi

Spam costs US corporations upwards of $8.9 billion a year, and comprises as much as 40% of all email received. Solutions exist to reduce the amount of spam seen by end users, but cannot withstand sophisticated attacks. Worse yet, many will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Evan P. Greenberg , David R. Cheriton

We present a comprehensive review of the most effective content-based e-mail spam filtering techniques. We focus primarily on Machine Learning-based spam filters and their variants, and report on a broad review ranging from surveying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Alexy Bhowmick , Shyamanta M. Hazarika

Mobile network operators implement firewalls to stop illicit messages, but scammers find ways to evade detection. Previous work has looked into SMS texts that are blocked by these firewalls. However, there is little insight into SMS texts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sharad Agarwal , Guillermo Suarez-Tangil , Marie Vasek

The never-ending barrage of malicious emails, such as spam and phishing, is of constant concern for users, who rely on countermeasures such as email filters to keep the intended recipient safe. Modern email filters, one of our few defence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Lucas Betts , Robert Biddle , Danielle Lottridge , Giovanni Russello

The Internet is used by billions of users every day because it offers fast and free communication tools and platforms. Nevertheless, with this significant increase in usage, huge amounts of spam are generated every second, which wastes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Omar Husni Odeh , Anas Arram , Murad Njoum

The growing problem of unsolicited bulk e-mail, also known as "spam", has generated a need for reliable anti-spam e-mail filters. Filters of this type have so far been based mostly on manually constructed keyword patterns. An alternative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ion Androutsopoulos , John Koutsias , Konstantinos V. Chandrinos , Constantine D. Spyropoulos

Contemporary e-mail services have high availability expectations from the customers and are resource-strained because of the high-volume throughput and spam attacks. Deep Machine Learning architectures, which are resource hungry and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Stanislav Selitskiy

Spam emails are unsolicited, annoying and sometimes harmful messages which may contain malware, phishing or hoaxes. Unlike most studies that address the design of efficient anti-spam filters, we approach the spam email problem from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 F. Janez-Martino , R. Alaiz-Rodriguez , V. Gonzalez-Castro , E. Fidalgo , E. Alegre

Spam messages continue to present significant challenges to digital users, cluttering inboxes and posing security risks. Traditional spam detection methods, including rules-based, collaborative, and machine learning approaches, struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Qiyao Tang , Xiangyang Li

With the generalization of mobile communication systems, solicitations of all kinds in the form of messages and emails are received by users with increasing proportion of malicious ones. They are customized to pass anti-spam filters and ask…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-30 P-Y. Cousin , V. Bernard , A. Lefaillet , M. Mugaruka , C. Raibaud

Anomalies in emails such as phishing and spam present major security risks such as the loss of privacy, money, and brand reputation to both individuals and organizations. Previous studies on email anomaly detection relied on a single type…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Craig Beaman , Haruna Isah

Web spam refers to some techniques, which try to manipulate search engine ranking algorithms in order to raise web page position in search engine results. In the best case, spammers encourage viewers to visit their sites, and provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Shekoofeh Ghiam , Alireza Nemaney Pour