Understanding Security Threats in Spam Detection on Social Networks

Abstract

Social network has become a very popular way for internet users to communicate and interact online. The socia; networks provide a platform to maintain a contact with friends. Increasing social network’s popularity allows all of them to collect large amounts of personal details about their users. Globally, the issue of identifying spammers have received great attention due to its practical relevance in the field of social network analysis. Social network community users are fed with irrelevant information while surfing, due to spammer's activity. Spam pervades any information system such as e-mail or web, social, blog or reviews platform. The aim of this paper is to examine previous works in the field of spam detection in social networks, the study attempts to review various spam detection frameworks which details about the detection and elimination of spam's in various sources, By classification and Clustering Method of spam detection and by raising security awareness among the users of social networks and stake holders , by prescribing a strategic approach or data mining approach for analyzing the nature of spam detection on social networks.