In this thesis we present the Spamato Mail Proxy. Spamato is a collaborative spam filter system that acts as a stand alone component offering interfaces for mail clients and for spam filters. The Spamato Mail Proxy’s task is to allow for the connection of arbitrary mail clients to the spam filter system. Today’s email clients retrieve mails either through POP or IMAP. Therefore, the Spamato Mai...

The number of spam mails has spread rapidly in recent years. Currently, the most common spam filtering solutions include blacklisting and content filtering, as well as the Bayesian approach, which uses a Bayesian filter to analyze mail content to generate classifiers. However, spammers can forge their addresses or include additional information that will mislead the filtering system or mark leg...

BACKGROUND This study focuses on young adult behaviors with regard to spam e-mails that sell weight loss products. METHODS Participants (N = 200) with and without weight problems were asked if they received, opened, and bought products from spam e-mail about weight loss topics in the past year. Psychological factors of self-esteem and perceived stress were measured. RESULTS Those with weigh...

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, ...

It is well known that Unsolicited Commercial Emails (UCE), commonly known as spam, are becoming a serious problem for email accounts of single users, small companies and large institutions. The presence of spam can seriously compromise normal user activities, forcing to navigate through mailboxes to find the relatively few interesting emails, so wasting time and bandwidth, occupying their stora...

The effect of spam filtering method based on statistics is not good in filtering the new-type spam with synonymous substitution and camouflage. So a new text clustering method based on Semantic Body for filtering Chinese spam is proposed. In this paper, the word sense disambiguation, lexical chain based on HowNet and statistic-based TFIDF are adopted to extract features of mails. The Semantic B...

Unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE) or spam constitutes a significant fraction of all e-mail connection attempts and routinely frustrates users, consumes resources, and serves as an infection vector for malicious software. In an effort to scalably and effectively reduce the impact of these e-mails, e-mail system designers have increasingly turned to blacklisting. Blacklisting (blackholing, block list...

The problem of spam e-mail has gained a tremendous amount of attention. Although entities tend to use e-mail spam filter applications to filter out received spam e-mails, marketing companies still tend to send unsolicited emails in bulk and users still receive a reasonable amount of spam e-mail despite those filtering applications. This work proposes a new method for classifying emails into spa...

Many of us are concerned about an onslaught of SPAM email. Spam has become major problem for the email communications. The number of spam mails is increasing daily – studies show that over 45-50% of all current email communication is spam, it is an ever-increasing problem and will reach up to 70% in coming years. The volume of nonEnglish language spam is increasing day by day. The motivation fo...

The malaise of electronic spam mail that solicit illicit partnership using bogus business proposals (popularly called 419 mails) remained unabated on the internet despite concerted efforts. In addition to these are the emergence and prevalence of phishing scams that use social engineering tactics to obtain online access codes such as credit card number, ATM pin numbers, bank account details, so...