An effective defense against email spam laundering

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 179-190

  Xie, Mengjun ^a   Yin, Heng ^a   Wang, Haining ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Proxy; Spam; SPRT

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER PRIVACY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

PROXY; SPAM; SPAMMERS; SPRT;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 34547336772     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180405.1180428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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