This document provides an overview of spam, including its history, statistics, types, solutions, and the law against spamming in India. It defines spam as unsolicited and unwanted social media posts or suspicious emails sent to many users. The first major spam incident began in 1994 via email. By 2009, English was the predominant language of spam, though spammers began translating spam to other languages. Common types of spam include email, social networking, mobile apps, and video sharing sites. Suggested solutions are self-management, whitelisting, blacklisting, and software/filters. Currently, India lacks legislation directly addressing spam regulation.

1. Yash Shrivastava

2. ICTInformation Communication
Technology
- Yash Shrivastava
Ba.LLB 2nd Year
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3. SPAM
-Introduction Of SPAM
-History
-Statistics
-Types
-Solution
-Law Against Spamming in INDIA
-Conclusion
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4. INTRODUCTION
Def-
SPAM is defined as an unsolicited, unwanted, postings
on social network websites or suspicious emails sent to
a large number of users.
WIKI Def -
Social Spam is unwanted spam content appearing on
social network and any website with user-generated
content (comments, chat, etc.). It can be manifested in
many ways, including bulk messages, profanity, insults,
hate speech, malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake
friends, and personally identifiable information.
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5. HISTORY
- The First major commercial spam incident started on March 5,
1994.
- Within a few years, the focus of spamming (and anti-spam
efforts) moved chiefly to email, where it remains
today. Arguably, the aggressive email spamming by a number
of high-profile spammers such as Sanford Wallace of Cyber
Promotions in the mid-to-late 1990s contributed to making
spam predominantly an email phenomenon in the public
mind.
- By 2009, the majority of spam sent around the World was in
the English language spammers began using automatic
translation services to send spam in other languages
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6. STATISTICS
-In 2011 the origins of
spam were analyzed
by Cisco Systems. They
provided a report that
shows spam volume
originating from countries
worldwide.
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7. TYPES
• E-mail
• Instant Messaging
• Mobile Phones
• Social Networking Spam
• Social Spam
• Spam Targeting Video Sharing Sites
• Academic search
• Mobile Apps
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8. • E-Mail- Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email (UBE), junk mail, or
unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted email
messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an
indiscriminate set of recipients. Spam in email started to become a problem when
the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s. It grew
exponentially over the following years, and today composes some 80 to 85 percent
of all the e-mail in the World, by a "conservative estimate“.
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9. • Spam Targeting Video Sharing Spam.
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10. • Mobile Apps Spam
• Spamming in mobile app stores include
• (i) apps that were automatically generated and as a result do not have any
specific functionality or a meaningful description.
• (ii) multiple instances of the same app being published to obtain increased
visibility in the app market.
• (iii) apps that make excessive use of unrelated keywords to attract users
through unintended searches.
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11. • SOLUTION
There are different solutions to SPAM that you can use, such as:
- Self solution
- White List Solutions
- Black List Solutions
- Software Solutions
- Heuristic Filters
- Content Filters
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12. • Self Solution
- Self solution entails the user viewing and deleting SPAM in their mailbox.
-While this may be effective, it is time consuming and frustrating.
• White List Solution
- White lists allow mail to be received from senders that are in your address
book.
- Mail from senders that are not in your address book will be stored in
the junk mail folder.
-In some cases, the mail from senders that are not in the address book will
be deleted.
• Black List Solutions
- A black list contains domain names or email addresses of companies that
are known spammers.
- Software is available that helps you to list the known SPAM domains or
email addresses; these will be placed in the junk mail or be deleted.
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13. • Software Solution
- Software solutions have rules or are linked to internet black lists
- The software is usually installed on a computer or server.
- Examples of SPAM software solutions include BitDefender, Imail or
Mailwasher, ADWCleaner , ETC .
• Heuristic Filters
- A Heuristic Filter scans for characteristics, links, words and phrases that are
commonly used in SPAM.
-There are certain rules that are used in the program to indicate whether mail
is SPAM or not.
• Content Filters
-SPAM can also be indicated by the content in the email or on the webpage.
-Rules are used to decide whether the content is SPAM or not.
-The subject, attachments, headers, size and body content are viewed to help
decide whether it classifies as SPAM.
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14. Law against Spamming in INDIA
Presently, the Indian Government is yet to legislate a
law that directly addresses the issue of spam. The
existing law in the form of the Information
Technology Act 2000 does not contain any provision
concerning regulation of spamming, though it does
regulate obscenity which covers publishing,
transmitting or causing to be published in electronic
form any material which is lascivious or appeals to
the prurient interest.
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15. CONCULSION
SPAM is an accompaniment of the internet
that is time consuming, frustrating and
potentially threatening to your computer. Take
note of the ways to prevent SPAM from
cluttering up your mailbox. At the same time
make sure that your site is not viewed as
spam.
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16. THANK
YOU
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