If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts

Abdullah Almaatouq; Erez Shmueli; Mariam Nouh; Ahmad Alabdulkareem; Vivek K. Singh; Mansour Alsaleh; Abdulrahman Alarifi; Anas Alfaris; Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

doi:10.1007/s10207-016-0321-5

If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts

Abdullah Almaatouq
, Erez Shmueli
, Mariam Nouh
, Ahmad Alabdulkareem
, Vivek K. Singh
, Mansour Alsaleh
, Abdulrahman Alarifi
, Anas Alfaris
, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	475-491
Number of pages	17
Journal	International Journal of Information Security
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0321-5
State	Published - Oct 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Software
Information Systems
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

Account abuse
Microblogging
Online social networks
Spam analysis
Spam detection

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Almaatouq, A., Shmueli, E., Nouh, M., Alabdulkareem, A., Singh, V. K., Alsaleh, M., Alarifi, A., Alfaris, A., & Pentland, A. S. (2016). If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts. International Journal of Information Security, 15(5), 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0321-5

Almaatouq, A, Shmueli, E, Nouh, M, Alabdulkareem, A, Singh, VK, Alsaleh, M, Alarifi, A, Alfaris, A & Pentland, AS 2016, 'If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts', International Journal of Information Security, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0321-5

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