Chapter 5
Fake Email and Spam Detection: User
Feedback with Naives Bayesian
Approach
Ayushi Gupta, Sushila Palwe and Devyani Keskar
1 Introduction
In neoteric times, amongst the quickest and majorly reasonable methods of intercom-
munication in the society for interaction and conversing with parents and friends and
for exchanging files, data, etc., emails are being used. They are segregated into dis-
tinct categories like ham (solicited) or spam (unsolicited). The classification which
deals with legal, authorized and verified emails falls under ham mails, whereas on
the other hand, the category which accounts to fake, unwanted, useless and pointless
mails comes under spam mails. Thus, these unwanted are causing major problems
and dire consequences. Amidst these, the rooted spam emails are crucial as they
embezzle storage space, generate time wastage, induce harmful malware and cru-
cially affect phishing. Issues like resource consumption, transmission bandwidth
costs, user’s time wastage, etc., cost billions of dollars. Segregation of spam mails
at real time is deployed and performed by Naive Bayes method. The major work
carried out by a classifier is to recognize the unwanted, fake or harmful mails which
are sent to the user and characterize it as unsolicited (spam) mail.
A. Gupta (B ) · D. Keskar
Department of Computer Engineering, MITCOE, Pune, India
e-mail: ayushimg9@gmail.com
D. Keskar
e-mail: devyani.keskar@gmail.com
S. Palwe
School of CET, MITWPU, Pune, India
e-mail: sushila.palwe@mitwpu.edu.in
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