Phishing emails are a continuing threat in today's society—this study aimed to unpeel the layers on why certain people are prone to phishing emails than others. Participants were presented with twenty legitimate emails as well as twenty phishing emails in random order and were asked to be phishing or not. They were also asked to explain why they chose the answer they believed was right in a couple of sentences. Data was compiled and collected via a Qualtrics survey and analyzed using JASP. Results obtained indicated little to no correlation between the number of features mentioned in the study and classifying and email accuracy as phishing. Studies like this help understand the cognitive constructs that lead to people unknowingly falling in traps set out by phishers and what prompts susceptible victims to think such emails are legitimate rather than seeing the dangers behind them.

Thesis (M.Comp.)--Unitec New Zealand, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-230).

<p>Viral marketing is a form of marketing that is based on individuals sharing of a message within their social network. When viral marketing works, it’s cheap and efficient and there are several examples of successful viral marketing campaigns that has given products or companies great success.</p><p>Viral marketing is relatively unexplored as a phenomenon, and there are several different suggested paths to choose to form a successful campaign. One suggestion is that viral marketers base their campaigns on different feelings to make the individual share the campaign, or feeling, with its social network. This is one of the things that we are looking at in this report. With a quantitative study based on the replies of over 800 students, we try to determine which feeling is more efficient in viral marketing campaigns. We also try to determine how viral campaigns are received and handled as well as students view on viral marketing as a phenomenon.</p><p>This report shows that receivers of viral marketing campaigns have a pattern in the way they act as a result of it. Receivers who view one viral marketing campaign as spam, block the messages sender or delete the message are likely to view all campaigns as spam, no matter which type of viral marketing campaign they receive. This pattern does not exist for those who choose to forward viral messages, nor does the strength of the feeling matter. However, we are able to distinguish that campaigns based on sadness, anger, fear and disgust are forwarded more than campaigns based on other feelings. These types of campaigns are often forwarded by women. Campaigns based on sick humor or surprise are more commonly forwarded by men. However, women are more likely to forward viral messages.</p> / <p>Virusmarknadsföring är en typ av marknadsföring som går ut på att individer inom sociala nätverk skickar ett budskap vidare till varandra. När marknadsföringsformen fungerar är den mycket billig och effektiv. Det finns ett flertal exempel på framgångsrika virusmarknadsföringskampanjer som lyckats och gett produkter eller företag stor framgång.</p><p>Virusmarknadsföringen som fenomen är relativt outforskad och det finns olika förslag på vägar att gå för att forma en framgångsrik kampanj. Bland annat kan virusmarknadsförare spela på individers känslor för att få dem att skicka ett budskap vidare inom sitt sociala nätverk. I denna uppsats tittar vi närmare på just detta, och tar reda på vilka känslor som bäst lämpar sig för en virusmarknadsföringskampanj. Genom en kvantitativ undersökning där cirka 800 studenter från Blekinge Tekniska Högskola och Högskolan i Gävle deltagit tar vi också reda på hur synen på virusmarknadsföring ser ut, samt vilken reaktion det får när det mottas.</p><p>Detta examensarbete visar att de som tar emot virusmarknadsföring har ett mönster i sitt agerande. De som ser en virusmarknadsföringskampanj som spam eller till och med blockerar avsändaren, gör detsamma för oberoende av vilken typ av kampanj de mottar. Samma sak gäller de som väljer att radera meddelandet. Mönstret i agerandet gäller dock inte för de som skickar budskap vidare. Hur stark känsla som väcks av kampanjen spelar heller ingen roll. Dock tycker vi oss se att virusmarknadsföringskampanjer baserade på sorg, ilska, rädsla och äckel fungerar bättre än andra kampanjer. Dessa skickas oftast vidare av kvinnor. Män skickar inte virusmarknadsföringskampanjer vidare lika ofta som kvinnor. När de gör det så väljer de dock att skicka vidare sjuk humor eller budskap baserade på förvåning.</p>

Viral marketing is a form of marketing that is based on individuals sharing of a message within their social network. When viral marketing works, it’s cheap and efficient and there are several examples of successful viral marketing campaigns that has given products or companies great success. Viral marketing is relatively unexplored as a phenomenon, and there are several different suggested paths to choose to form a successful campaign. One suggestion is that viral marketers base their campaigns on different feelings to make the individual share the campaign, or feeling, with its social network. This is one of the things that we are looking at in this report. With a quantitative study based on the replies of over 800 students, we try to determine which feeling is more efficient in viral marketing campaigns. We also try to determine how viral campaigns are received and handled as well as students view on viral marketing as a phenomenon. This report shows that receivers of viral marketing campaigns have a pattern in the way they act as a result of it. Receivers who view one viral marketing campaign as spam, block the messages sender or delete the message are likely to view all campaigns as spam, no matter which type of viral marketing campaign they receive. This pattern does not exist for those who choose to forward viral messages, nor does the strength of the feeling matter. However, we are able to distinguish that campaigns based on sadness, anger, fear and disgust are forwarded more than campaigns based on other feelings. These types of campaigns are often forwarded by women. Campaigns based on sick humor or surprise are more commonly forwarded by men. However, women are more likely to forward viral messages. / Virusmarknadsföring är en typ av marknadsföring som går ut på att individer inom sociala nätverk skickar ett budskap vidare till varandra. När marknadsföringsformen fungerar är den mycket billig och effektiv. Det finns ett flertal exempel på framgångsrika virusmarknadsföringskampanjer som lyckats och gett produkter eller företag stor framgång. Virusmarknadsföringen som fenomen är relativt outforskad och det finns olika förslag på vägar att gå för att forma en framgångsrik kampanj. Bland annat kan virusmarknadsförare spela på individers känslor för att få dem att skicka ett budskap vidare inom sitt sociala nätverk. I denna uppsats tittar vi närmare på just detta, och tar reda på vilka känslor som bäst lämpar sig för en virusmarknadsföringskampanj. Genom en kvantitativ undersökning där cirka 800 studenter från Blekinge Tekniska Högskola och Högskolan i Gävle deltagit tar vi också reda på hur synen på virusmarknadsföring ser ut, samt vilken reaktion det får när det mottas. Detta examensarbete visar att de som tar emot virusmarknadsföring har ett mönster i sitt agerande. De som ser en virusmarknadsföringskampanj som spam eller till och med blockerar avsändaren, gör detsamma för oberoende av vilken typ av kampanj de mottar. Samma sak gäller de som väljer att radera meddelandet. Mönstret i agerandet gäller dock inte för de som skickar budskap vidare. Hur stark känsla som väcks av kampanjen spelar heller ingen roll. Dock tycker vi oss se att virusmarknadsföringskampanjer baserade på sorg, ilska, rädsla och äckel fungerar bättre än andra kampanjer. Dessa skickas oftast vidare av kvinnor. Män skickar inte virusmarknadsföringskampanjer vidare lika ofta som kvinnor. När de gör det så väljer de dock att skicka vidare sjuk humor eller budskap baserade på förvåning.

Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und Professur "Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme" der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Chemnitz. Workshop-Thema: Mobilitaet Es werden Filtermöglichkeiten für E-Mails vorgestellt, um die E-Mail-Bearbeitung zu automatisieren und Spam-Mails und Mails mit gefährlichem Inhalt abzuwehren.

Workshop "Netz- und Service-Infrastrukturen" Dieser Beitrag zum Workshop "Netz- und Service-Infrastrukturen" 2004 analysiert den Stand der Anti-Spam-Maßnahmen an der TU Chemnitz und zeigt neue Techniken auf.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

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Online Social Networks (OSNs) have seen an enormous boost in popularity in recent years. Along with this popularity has come tribulations such as privacy concerns, spam, phishing and malware. Many recent works have focused on automatically detecting these unwanted behaviors in OSNs so that they may be removed. These works have developed state-of-the-art detection schemes that use machine learning techniques to automatically classify OSN accounts as spam or non-spam. In this work, these detection schemes are recreated and tested on new data. Through this analysis, it is clear that spammers are beginning to evade even these detectors. The evasion tactics used by spammers are identified and analyzed. Then a new detection scheme is built upon the previous ones that is robust against these evasion tactics. Next, the difficulty of evasion of the existing detectors and the new detector are formalized and compared. This work builds a foundation for future researchers to build on so that those who would like to protect innocent internet users from spam and malicious content can overcome the advances of those that would prey on these users for a meager dollar.