Spamalytics: An empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-14

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

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion; Spam; Unsolicited email

Indexed keywords

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

COMPUTER CRIME; ELECTRONIC MAIL; MARKETING; SPAMMING;

INTERNET;

EID: 70349272437     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1455770.1455774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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