Electronic mail, or email, is a method for com-municating using the internet which inexpensive, effective, and fast. Spam type of email where unwanted messages, usually commercial are distributed in large quantities by spammer. The objective such behavior to harm users; these messages need be detected prevented from being sent users first place. In order filter emails, developers have used mach...

This paper proposes a multimodal framework that clusters spam images so that ones from the same spam source/cluster are grouped together. By identifying the common sources of spam images, we can provide evidence in tracking spam gangs. For this purpose, text recognition and visual feature extraction are performed. Subsequently, a two-level clustering method is applied where images with visually...

Email spam has become costly and difficult to manage in recent years. Many of the mechanisms used for controlling spam are located at local SMTP servers and end-host machines. These mechanisms can place a significant burden on mail servers and end-host machines as the number spam messages received continues to increase. We propose a preliminary architecture that applies spam detection filtering...

Today most of the personal and professional communication is done using the electronic media such as E-Mailing, SMS etc. But these all services also suffer from the problem of unwanted messages or the communicating information called Spam. The Spam Message can be an email virus, charity latter, commercial advertisement etc. But it affects the user time, memory and the attention. In this paper, ...

In this paper an attempt is made to review technological, economical and legal aspects of the spam in detail. The technical details will include different techniques of spam control e.g., filtering techniques, Genetic Algorithm, Memory Based Classifier, Support Vector Machine Method, etc. The economic aspect includes Shaping/Rate Throttling Approach/Economic Filtering and Pricing/Payment based ...

Search Engine spam is a web page or a portion of a web page which has been created with the intention of increasing its ranking in search engines. Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines and give some pages higher ranking than they deserve. Anyone who uses a search engine frequently has most likely encountered a high ranking page that consists of nothing more than a bu...

Currently, spam and scams are passive attack over the inbox which can initiated to steal some confidential information, to spread Worms, Viruses, Trojans, cookies and Sometimes they are used for phishing attacks. Spam mails are the major issue over mail boxes as well as over the internet. Spam mails can be the cause of phishing attack, hacking of banking accounts, attacks on confidential data. ...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest among people to use short message service (SMS) as one of the essential and straightforward communications services on mobile devices. The increased popularity of this service also increased the number of mobile devices attacks such as SMS spam messages. SMS spam messages constitute a real problem to mobile subscribers; this worries telecomm...

This paper describes a technique for automating the detection of Web link spam, that is, groups of pages that are linked together with the sole purpose of obtaining an undeservedly high score in search engines. The problem of Web spam is widespread and difficult to solve, mostly due to the large size of web collections that makes many algorithms unfeasible in practice. For spam detection we app...