Leveraging Social Networks to Fight Spam

Authors:
P. Oscar Boykin;Vwani P. Roychowdhury
Affiliations:
University of Florida;University of California, Los Angeles
Venue:
Computer
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Social networks are useful for judging the trustworthiness of outsiders. An automated antispam tool exploits the properties of social networks to distinguish between unsolicited commercial e-mail驴spam驴and messages associated with people the user knows.