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The identification of spam messages on social networks is a very challenging task. Social media sites like Twitter \& Facebook attracts a lot of users and companies to advertise and attract users of personal gains. These advertisements most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Prakamya Mishra

Cybercriminals have leveraged the popularity of a large user base available on Online Social Networks to spread spam campaigns by propagating phishing URLs, attaching malicious contents, etc. However, another kind of spam attacks using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Srishti Gupta , Abhinav Khattar , Arpit Gogia , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Due to the huge commercial interests behind online reviews, a tremendousamount of spammers manufacture spam reviews for product reputation manipulation. To further enhance the influence of spam reviews, spammers often collaboratively post…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ziyang Wang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Guibing Guo , Pan Zhou , Shanshan Feng

Spammer detection on social network is a challenging problem. The rigid anti-spam rules have resulted in emergence of "smart" spammers. They resemble legitimate users who are difficult to identify. In this paper, we present a novel spammer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Linqing Liu , Yao Lu , Ye Luo , Renxian Zhang , Laurent Itti , Jianwei Lu

Social networking websites face a constant barrage of spam, unwanted messages that distract, annoy, and even defraud honest users. These messages tend to be very short, making them difficult to identify in isolation. Furthermore, spammers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Jonathan Brophy , Daniel Lowd

Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular methods used to identify and block spam, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-01 Dominik Schatzmann , Martin Burkhart , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

The exponential growth of spam text on the Internet necessitates robust detection mechanisms to mitigate risks such as information leakage and social instability. This work addresses two principal challenges: adversarial strategies employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhijie Wang , Zixin Xu , Zhiyuan Pan

There is a tremendous increase in spam traffic these days. Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread worms and viruses. Our goal is to present a definite figure about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Cynthia Dhinakaran , Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Jae Kwang Lee

The communication revolution has perpetually reshaped the means through which people send and receive information. Social media is an important pillar of this revolution and has brought profound changes to various aspects of our lives.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bilal Abu-Salih , Dana Al Qudah , Malak Al-Hassan , Seyed Mohssen Ghafari , Tomayess Issa , Ibrahim Aljarah , Amin Beheshti , Sulaiman Alqahtan

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

Real-time fraud detection is a challenge for most financial and electronic commercial platforms. To identify fraudulent communities, Grab, one of the largest technology companies in Southeast Asia, forms a graph from a set of transactions…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jiaxin Jiang , Yuan Li , Bingsheng He , Bryan Hooi , Jia Chen , Johan Kok Zhi Kang

We study the problem of identifying botnets and the IP addresses which they comprise, based on the observation of a fraction of the global email spam traffic. Observed mailing campaigns constitute evidence for joint botnet membership, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Peter Haider , Tobias Scheffer

Due to the increasing trend of performing spamming activities (e.g., Web spam, deceptive reviews, fake followers, etc.) on various online platforms to gain undeserved benefits, spam detection has emerged as a hot research issue. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuli Liu

Spambot detection in online social networks is a long-lasting challenge involving the study and design of detection techniques capable of efficiently identifying ever-evolving spammers. Recently, a new wave of social spambots has emerged,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Stefano Cresci , Roberto Di Pietro , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi , Maurizio Tesconi

In this work we are concerned with the detection of spam in video sharing social networks. Specifically, we investigate how much visual content-based analysis can aid in detecting spam in videos. This is a very challenging task, because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-04-29 Antonio da Luz , Eduardo Valle , Arnaldo Araujo

Botnets represent a global problem and are responsible for causing large financial and operational damage to their victims. They are implemented with evasion in mind, and aim at hiding their architecture and authors, making them difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Pedro Camelo , Joao Moura , Ludwig Krippahl

This article is inspired by video classification technology. If the user behavior subspace is viewed as a frame image, consecutive frame images are viewed as a video. Following this novel idea, a model for spammer detection based on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Haoyang Zhang , Zhou Yang , Yucai Pang

Social Media Platforms (SMPs) like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. have large user base all around the world that generates huge amount of data every second. This includes a lot of posts by fake and spam users, typically used by many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Manojit Chakraborty , Shubham Das , Radhika Mamidi

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…