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Tips & Tricks in Spam Email Detection Part 1

1) Forget about teaching a computer to detect spam, first write pseudocode to see if you, yourself, can do it. This may help form a plan of what you also need to program the computer to do.

2) Remember with such infinite possibilities for emails, you won't be able to identify every single one, try focusing on the broader, more common aspects of spam emails.

3) Create your program as a complete reflection of what you would do in that situation. Try to comprehend the ideas that you come up with when identifying spam emails and make them specific into how they are written. An example could be searching for multiple exclamation marks. Here is an article that may point out some more obvious factors of spam emails: https://www.westtek.co.uk/blog/story/9-tips-on-how-to-identify-a-spam-email

- more advanced spam filtering ideas can be found here: https://www.connectingup.org/learn/articles/ten-spam-filtering-methods-explained



Pseudocode: informal text-based language that is used to help describe tasks in swift small sentences. It is the "plain language" of creating advanced algorithms.: https://www.unf.edu/~broggio/cop2221/2221pseu.htm#:~:text=Pseudocode%20is%20an%20artificial%20and,%2C%20for%2C%20if%2C%20switch.

 
 
 

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