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
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