Comparative Graph Theoretical Characterization of Networks of Spam and Legitimate Email

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dc.creatorGomes, Luiz H.
dc.creatorAlmeida, Rodrigo B.
dc.creatorBettencourt, Luis M. A.
dc.creatorAlmeida, Virgilio
dc.creatorAlmeida, Jussara M.
dc.date2005-04-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:54:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:54:34Z
dc.descriptionEmail is an increasingly important and ubiquitous means of communication, both facilitating contact between private individuals and enabling rises in the productivity of organizations. However the relentless rise of automatic unauthorized emails, a.k.a. spam is eroding away much of the attractiveness of email communication. Most of the attention dedicated to date to spam detection has focused on the content of the emails or on the addresses or domains associated with spam senders. Although methods based on these - easily changeable - identifiers work reasonably well they miss on the fundamental nature of spam as an opportunistic relationship, very different from the normal mutual relations between senders and recipients of legitimate email. Here we present a comprehensive graph theoretical analysis of email traffic that captures these properties quantitatively. We identify several simple metrics that serve both to distinguish between spam and legitimate email and to provide a statistical basis for models of spam traffic.
dc.description9 pages, 21 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504025
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504025
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87004
dc.subjectPhysics and Society
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.titleComparative Graph Theoretical Characterization of Networks of Spam and Legitimate Email
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