Review of Various types of Spam and Spammer Detection Techniques

Abstract

With the advancement of technology, the way of social connectivity is also changing. In this modern era most of the people are connected to each other through digital medium of communications. There are various platforms which facilitates social connectivity. The platforms like twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and google meet, zoom app etc. provides facilities like tweets, chats, video chats, video conferencing, personal conversation, group conversation etc. As the popularity of this social media platforms are increasing, threats to the privacy, online frauds, spamming activities and vulnerability is also increasing on this platforms. These platforms are becoming prime targets for attackers. There are various spam and spammer detection techniques that are developed for securing social media users from such attackers. A review of recent spam and spammer detection techniques is provided in this paper.