• DocumentCode
    3017353
  • Title

    Fighting spammers with spam

  • Author

    Antonopoulos, Alexandros A. ; Stefanidis, Kyriakos G. ; Voyiatzis, Artemios G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-25 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    A spammer is making profit and stays in business even when a tiny fraction of recipients replies to spam messages. Despite enormous effort put in spam identification and elimination, spam is still dominating our inbox. We seek a novel and complementary approach to force spammers stop sending unsolicited messages. Our approach is to artificially inflate the number of available recipients by contaminating spammers´ databases with addresses not monitored by human beings. Thus, we aim to drastically reduce the number of messages delivered to human beings as to reduce the response rate.
  • Keywords
    security of data; unsolicited e-mail; spam elimination; spam identification; spam messages; spammer databases; unsolicited commercial email; unsolicited messages; Bandwidth; Business; Costs; Databases; Humans; Internet; Postal services; Productivity; Traffic control; Unsolicited electronic mail; UCE; Unsolicited commercial email; mail; spam;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2009. ISADS '09. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Athens
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4327-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISADS.2009.5207323
  • Filename
    5207323