Boyeon Jang  Sihyun Jeong  Chongkwon Kim

10.5626/JOK.2017.44.11.1231

spammer SPAM online social networks

Given the network structure in online social network, it is important to determine a way to distinguish spam accounts from the network features. In online social network, the service provider attempts to detect social spamming to maintain their service quality. However the spammer group changes their strategies to avoid being detected. Even though the spammer attempts to act as legitimate users, certain distinguishable structural features are not easily changed. In this paper, we investigate a way to generate meaningful network structure features, and suggest spammer detection method using recursive structural features. From a result of real-world dataset experiment, we found that the proposed algorithm could improve the classification performance by about 8%.