Improved email spam detection model based on support vector machines

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunday Olusanya Olatunji
Author(s):  
Azhar Baig

E-mail contributes to internet messaging as a necessary component. Spam mails are unwanted messages that appear in large numbers and are exploited by spammers to divulge personal information of the user. These e-mails are frequently company/control announcements or malware that the user receives suddenly. Email spamming is one of the Internet's unsolved challenges, causing inconvenience to users and loss to businesses. Filtering is one of the foremost widely used and important methods for preventing spam emails. Email filters are commonly wont to organize incoming emails, protect computers from viruses, and eliminate spam. We present this method to classifying spam emails using support vector machines during this study, the SVM outperformed other classifiers.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nassim Laouti ◽  
Sami Othman ◽  
Mazen Alamir ◽  
Nida Sheibat-Othman

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