Spam Detection using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Nowadays communication plays a major role in everything be it professional

or personal. Email communication service is being used extensively because of its

free use services, low-cost operations, accessibility, and popularity. Emails have one

major security flaw that is anyone can send an email to anyone just by getting their

unique user id. This security flaw is being exploited by some businesses and

ill-motivated persons for advertising, phishing, malicious purposes, and finally fraud.

This produces a kind of email category called SPAM.

Spam refers to any email that contains an advertisement, unrelated and

frequent emails. These emails are increasing day by day in numbers. Studies show

that around 55 percent of all emails are some kind of spam. A lot of effort is being

put into this by service providers. Spam is evolving by changing the obvious markers

of detection. Moreover, the spam detection of service providers can never be

aggressive with classification because it may cause potential information loss to

incase of a misclassification.

To tackle this problem we present a new and efficient method to detect spam

using machine learning and natural language processing. A tool that can detect and

classify spam. In addition to that, it also provides information regarding the text

provided in a quick view format for user convenience.