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@inproceedings{Spamalytics,
  Abstract =	 {The conversion rate of spam--the probability that an
                  unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a
                  sale--underlies the entire spam value
                  proposition. However, our understanding of this
                  critical behavior is quite limited, and the
                  literature lacks any quantitative study concerning
                  its true value. In this paper we present a
                  methodology for measuring the conversion rate of
                  spam. Using a parasitic infiltration of an existing
                  botnet's infrastructure, we analyze two spam
                  campaigns: one designed to propagate a malware
                  Trojan, the other marketing on-line
                  pharmaceuticals. For nearly a half billion spam
                  e-mails we identify the number that are successfully
                  delivered, the number that pass through popular
                  anti-spam filters, the number that elicit user
                  visits to the advertised sites, and the number of
                  sales and infections produced.},
  Author =	 {Chris Kanich and Christian Kreibich and Kirill
                  Levchenko and Brandon Enright and Geoffrey
                  M. Voelker and Vern Paxson and Stefan Savage},
  Bibsource =	 {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  Booktitle =	 {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
                  Security},
  Crossref =	 {DBLP:conf/ccs/2008},
  Pages =	 {3-14},
  Title =	 {Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing
                  conversion},
  Year =	 {2008},
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  interesting =	 "high/med/low",
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}



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@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ccs/2008,
  Bibsource =	 {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  Booktitle =	 {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
                  Security},
  Editor =	 {Peng Ning and Paul F. Syverson and Somesh Jha},
  Isbn =	 {978-1-59593-810-7},
  Publisher =	 {ACM},
  Title =	 {Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer
                  and Communications Security, CCS 2008, Alexandria,
                  Virginia, USA, October 27-31, 2008},
  Year =	 {2008}
}