Observing common spam in Twitter and email

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 461-466

  Lumezanu, Cristian ^a   Feamster, Nick ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

dns; email; multiple platform spam; spam; twitter

Indexed keywords

DNS; E-MAIL SPAM; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; FINANCIAL GAINS; INSTANT MESSAGING; JOINT ANALYSIS; LOOKUPS; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPAM; SPAMMERS; TWITTER; WEB-BASED EMAILS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INTERNET;

EID: 84870860574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398776.2398824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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