Short messages to cell phones (SMSs) have become the most popular means of communication on digital fronts, especially in Africa and South Africa in particular. This inspires the abuse of such systems by advertisers through the distribution of SPAM. It has therefore become necessary to incorporate a filtering system similar to e-mail classification on these low resource devices. In this article...

Resumo—A classificação automática de SMS spam é um problema desafiador, pois ao contrário de outros documentos (como e-mails, por exemplo), esses textos são extremamente curtos, com no máximo 140 caracteres. Além disso, eles normalmente são escritos utilizando gírias, abreviaturas e símbolos como emoticons. Técnicas de pré-processamento tem sido aplicadas para contornar esse problema, como o us...

the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

Short Message Service (SMS) is a technology for sending messages in text format between two mobile phones that support such facility. Despite the emergence of many messaging applications, SMS still finds its use communication among people and broadcasting by governments providers. users often receive from parties, particularly marketing business purposes, advertisements, or elements fraud. Many...

Despite the increasing number of companies investing in mobile marketing campaigns, research investigation on the adoption process of mobile marketing from the perspective of consumers has been limited. Although mobile devices are a promising marketing tool, mobile spam (i.e. unsolicited SMS messages) raises privacy concerns relating to the utilisation of the personal and location data used to ...