Webb et al., 2008
Social Honeypots: Making Friends With A Spammer Near You
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2008
Authors
Webb, S., Caverlee, J., Pu, C.
Identifiers
N/A
Conference
CEAS 2008 - The Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, Mountain View, California, USA
Abstract
Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers. Unfortunately, little is known about these social spammers, their level of sophistication, or their strategies and tac- tics. Thus, in this paper, we provide the first characterization of social spammers and their behaviors. Concretely, we make two contributions: (1) we introduce social honeypots for tracking and monitoring social spam, and (2) we report the results of an analysis per- formed on spam data that was harvested by our social honeypots. Based on our analysis, we find that the behaviors of social spammers exhibit recognizable temporal and geo- graphic patterns and that social spam content contains various distinguishing characteristics. These results are quite promising and suggest that our analysis techniques may be used to automatically identify social spam.
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Citation
Webb, S., Caverlee, J., Pu, C., 2008. Social Honeypots: Making Friends With A Spammer Near You. Presented at the CEAS 2008 - The Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, Mountain View, California, USA, p. 11.
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