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Spam Email Classification

The document discusses spam emails, defining them as unsolicited bulk messages often used for advertising, phishing, or malware distribution. It highlights the importance of spam classification to protect users and enhance email system performance, detailing both manual and automated classification methods, particularly using machine learning. Challenges in spam classification include evolving techniques by spammers, false positives/negatives, and the need for localization in different languages.

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Spam Email Classification

The document discusses spam emails, defining them as unsolicited bulk messages often used for advertising, phishing, or malware distribution. It highlights the importance of spam classification to protect users and enhance email system performance, detailing both manual and automated classification methods, particularly using machine learning. Challenges in spam classification include evolving techniques by spammers, false positives/negatives, and the need for localization in different languages.

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Spam Email Classification

Introduction
to Spam
Emails
• What is Spam?
• Unsolicited emails, often from
unknown sources, sent in
bulk.
• Commonly used for
advertising, phishing, or
spreading malware.
• Why Spam Classification?
• Protects users from unwanted
content.
• Prevents phishing attacks and
malware threats.
• Enhances email system
performance.
What is
Spam?
• Unsolicited emails, often from
unknown sources, sent in
bulk.
• Commonly used for
advertising, phishing, or
spreading malware.
• Why Spam Classification?
• Protects users from unwanted
content.
• Prevents phishing attacks and
malware threats.
• Enhances email system
performance.
• Common Spam Types:
• Advertising Spam: Commercial promotions.
• Phishing Emails: Attempting to steal personal
data.
• Malware Distribution: Emails that carry viruses or
Types of malware.
• Scams: Fraudulent offers or lottery winning scams.

Spam • Characteristics of Spam:


• Unsolicited, irrelevant content.
• Often sent in bulk.
• Includes suspicious links, attachments, or requests
for personal data.
The Need Volume of Billions of emails High volume of Impact on Users

for Emails: sent every day. spam compared


to legitimate
emails.
and Systems:

Classificati
on Wasted time and Increased risk of Decreased user
resources. security productivity.
breaches.
Methods of Spam
Classification

Manual Users flagging Time-consuming


Classification: emails as spam. and prone to
human error.

Automated Machine learning Faster, more


Classification: algorithms for accurate, and
automatic spam scalable.
detection.
Machine
Learning
Approaches
• Supervised Learning:
• Training on Labeled Data: Using emails that are
labeled as spam or non-spam.
• Common Algorithms:
• Naive Bayes Classifier
• Support Vector Machine (SVM)
• Decision Trees
• Logistic Regression
• Unsupervised Learning:
• Clustering Algorithms: Grouping similar emails
together.
• Helps identify potential spam without labeled data.
Tokenization,
stemming, Important
stopword Features:
removal.

Feature Extraction Text


Email Content:
Text, links,

for Spam Preprocessing: attachments, and


keywords.

Classification
Sender's
Header
Information:
Analysis: SPF,
Email address,
DKIM, and
domain
DMARC checks.
reputation.

Metadata:
Time of
sending,
frequency, and
volume of
messages.
Evaluation Metrics

Precisio Recall:
n: Proportio
Accurac F1
Proportio n of
Commo y: Score:
n of spam
n Percenta Harmonic
correctly correctly
Evaluati ge of mean of
identified identified
on correctly precision
spam out out of
Metrics: classified and
of total total
emails. recall.
identified actual
as spam. spam.
Challenges in Spam
Classification

• Evolving Techniques:
• Spammers adapt to bypass filters.
• Use of obfuscation (e.g., misspelled words, hidden links).
• False Positives/Negatives:
• Legitimate emails marked as spam (false positive).
• Spam emails not detected (false negative).
• Language and Cultural Differences:
• Spam classification might need localization for different languages.

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