BE Projects - Project Idea - Mining Spam Email to derive forensics
BE Projects - Project Idea - Mining Spam Email to derive forensics
Here is a listing of a useful project idea which could be utilized as a useful BE Project Idea. This post is an article in a series of articles on project ideas.
Today Spam is a major part of internet traffic. Email spam is a well researched area and there are number of tools to classify email spam at the same time this is still an evolving area with significant issues in spam classification still being addressed. Spam while has been always seen a major problem in creating unnecessary traffic and bandwidth it can also be used as a source of useful forensic information.
This project idea is in a related area and derived by mining the already classified spam emails and identifying useful forensic information from that. Spam emails are used typically for a lot of frauds and illegal activities. By mining these emails some useful patterns can be identified in terms of the type of fraud being attempted, the origin of the fraud, the correlation between various related email spam campaigns among others. This idea is derived from the whitepaper in the reference. There is no specification in terms of the type of algorithm to be applied since this may need to be discovered. In addition the specific pattern or information being discovered is also something to be discovered. You can use your google spam emails as a data set to start your analysis and come up with a solution.
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