Machine Learning Techniques in Spam Detection
Yasmin Bouarara · Advances in data mining and database management book series · 2020
Spam, a contraction of rotten email (or junk email), is a global and massive phenomenon. And as long as email exists, this real problem will always exist. However, it is possible to significantly limit the effects of spam. To do this, you just have to use various anti-spam technologies wisely. In this chapter, the authors present the definitions of spam and its evolution, its objectives and impacts, as well as the different approaches and techniques used for detecting and filtering it.