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Spam or ham?
2011
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference on - CEAS '11
Web mail providers rely on users to "vote" to quickly and collaboratively identify spam messages. Unfortunately, spammers have begun to use bots to control large collections of compromised Web mail accounts not just to send spam, but also to vote "not spam" on incoming spam emails in an attempt to thwart collaborative filtering. We call this practice a vote gaming attack. This attack confuses spam filters, since it causes spam messages to be mislabeled as legitimate; thus, spammer IP addresses
doi:10.1145/2030376.2030401
dblp:conf/ceas/RamachandranDFW11
fatcat:3j66xkecdzhrlefbtdvn7jnnda