SMS Spam Message Detection using Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and Random Forest Algorithm

Abstract

The daily traffic of Short Message Service (SMS) keeps increasing. As a result, it leads to dramatic increase in mobile attacks such as spammers who plague the service with spam messages sent to the groups of recipients. Mobile spams are a growing problem as the number of spams keep increasing day by day even with the filtering systems. Spams are defined as unsolicited bulk messages in various forms such as unwanted advertisements, credit opportunities or fake lottery winner notifications. Spam classification has become more challenging due to complexities of the messages imposed by spammers. Hence, various methods have been developed in order to filter spams. In this study, methods of term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) and Random Forest Algorithm will be applied on SMS spam message data collection. Based on the experiment, Random Forest algorithm outperforms other algorithms with an accuracy of 97.50%.