A review on spam detection methods

Flooding the Internet with many copies of the same email message is known as spamming. While spammers can send thousands or even millions of spam emails at negligible cost, therecipient pays a considerable price for receiving this unwanted mail. Decreases in worker productivity, available bandwidth, data storage, and mail server efficiency are among themajor problems caused by the reception of spam. This paper presents the technical survey ofthe approaches currently used to handle spam.