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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2009. ISADS '09. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4327-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2009.5207323
