Social networks are useful for judging the trustworthiness of outsiders. An automated antispam tool exploits the properties of social networks to distinguish between unsolicited commercial e-mail—spam—and messages associated with people the user knows.
Index Terms:
e-mail, spam, Internet, communities, social networks
Citation:
P. Oscar Boykin, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, "Leveraging Social Networks to Fight Spam," Computer, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 61-68, Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MC.2005.132