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Spam Construction Trends

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Spam Construction Trends
This paper replicates and extends Observed Trends in Spam Construction Techniques: A Case Study of Spam Evolution. A corpus of 169,274 spam email was collected over a period of five years. Each spam email was tested for construction techniques using SpamAssassin's spamicity tests. The results of these tests were collected in a database. Formal definitions of Pu and Webb's co-existence, extinction and complex trends were developed and applied to the results within the database. A comparison of the Spam Evolution Study and this paper's results took place to determine the relevance of the trends. A geolocation analysis was conducted on the corpus, as an extension, to determine the major geographic sources of the corpus. KEY WORDS Spam, Geolocation
Barry Irwin, Blake Friedman
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Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ISSA
Authors Barry Irwin, Blake Friedman
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