The social honeypot project: protecting online communities from spammers Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We present the conceptual framework of the Social Honeypot Project for uncovering social spammers who target online communities and initial empirical results from Twitter and MySpace. Two of the key components of the Social Honeypot Project are: (1) The deployment of social honeypots for harvesting deceptive spam profiles from social networking communities; and (2) Statistical analysis of the properties of these spam profiles for creating spam classifiers to actively filter out existing and new spammers. 2010 Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web

author list (cited authors)

  • Lee, K., Caverlee, J., & Webb, S.

citation count

  • 70

complete list of authors

  • Lee, Kyumin||Caverlee, James||Webb, Steve

editor list (cited editors)

  • Rappa, M., Jones, P., Freire, J., & Chakrabarti, S.

publication date

  • January 2010