A Game Theoretic Model of Spam E-Mailing

We discuss how the interaction between spam senders and e-mail users can be modelled as a two-player adversary game. We show how the resulting model can be used to predict the strategies that the two opponent communities will eventually adopt, and how it can be employed to tune anti-spam filters.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CEAS
• Authors: Ion Androutsopoulos, Evangelos F. Magirou, Dimitrios K. Vassilakis
• Keywords: CEAS 2005, E-mail Users, Spam Senders, Two-player Adversary Game