Abstract

Mobile spam messages have become one of the main concerns in the field of short messaging service (SMS) due to its negative impact on mobile users and networks. The current literature lacks effective solutions for this issue. In this study, the negative impacts of SMS spam were thoroughly analysed, and the existing techniques for SMS spam detection were investigated through two experiments. The first experiment was performed to test and compare the current data mining and cost-sensitive techniques, whereas the second experiment was conducted to test the performance of the proposed technique. Based on the experimental results of the first phase, the most optimal non-cost classifier is a Bayesian network classifier, which is well behaved under the cost-sensitive classifier and obtained the lowest rate of false negative and an acceptable false positive rate. The proposed strategy achieves the best performance in terms of false negative SMS spam classification, obtaining the smallest total expenses and highest precision amongst the compared strategies.

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