The "conversion rate" of spam -- the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a "sale" -- underlies the entire spam value proposition. How...
Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko...
In recent years anti-spam filters have become necessary tools for Internet service providers to face up to the continuously growing spam phenomenon. Current server-side anti-spam ...
We investigate the performance of two machine learning algorithms in the context of antispam filtering. The increasing volume of unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam) has generated a nee...
Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras, Vangelis ...
Over the past 5 years, spam sending technology has improved dramatically. Static messages sent opportunistically through misconfigured hosts have evolved into dynamically generate...
Recent email spam filtering evaluations, such as those conducted at TREC, have shown that near-perfect filtering results are attained with a variety of machine learning methods wh...