Spamalytics: An empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 99-107

  Kanich, Chris ^a   Kreibich, Christian ^b   Levchenko, Kirill ^a   Enright, Brandon ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a   Paxson, Vern ^b   Savage, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SPAM FILTERS; CONVERSION RATES; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MALWARES; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPAM EMAILS; TROJANS; UNSOLICITED EMAIL; VALUE PROPOSITION;

COMPUTER CRIME; MARKETING; SPAMMING;

INTERNET;

EID: 70149106104     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1562164.1562190     Document Type: Article

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