This document discusses email spam detection. It begins with the objectives of classifying emails as spam or ham (legitimate emails) and providing users knowledge about fake vs real emails. It introduces spam as unsolicited commercial email involving mass mailing, explains how spammers obtain emails and the spam lifecycle. The document also outlines different types of spam filters including header, Bayesian, permission and content filters. It provides a flowchart of the email processing and preprocessing steps like removing stop words and lemmatization (grouping word forms). Finally, it discusses the scope of the project, including increased security and reduced costs.