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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120139
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A Cryptocurrency-based E-mail System for SPAM Control

Author 1: Shafiya Afzal Sheikh
Author 2: M. Tariq Banday

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 1, 2021.

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Abstract: Sending bulk e-mail is commercially cheap and technically easy, making it profitable for spammers, even if a tiny percentage of recipients falls for the attacks or turn into customers. Some researchers have proposed making e-mail paid so that sending bulk e-mail becomes expensive, making spamming unprofitable and a futile exercise unless many victims respond to spam. On the other hand, the small sending fee is negligible for legitimate e-mail users. Making e-mail paid is a challenging task if implemented using a conventional payment system or developing new cryptocurrencies. Traditional payment systems are challenging to integrate with e-mail systems, and new cryptocurrencies will have challenges in adoption by users on the required scale. This work proposes using cryptocurrency payments to make e-mail senders pay for sending an e-mail without creating a new cryptocurrency or a new blockchain. In the proposed system, the recipients of the e-mail can collect the payments and use the collected revenues to send e-mail messages or even sell them on an exchange. The proposed solution has been implemented using Ropsten, an Ethereum Test Network and tested using enhanced E-mail Client and Server software.

Keywords: E-mail; SPAM; blockchain; cryptocurrency; Ethereum

Shafiya Afzal Sheikh and M. Tariq Banday, “A Cryptocurrency-based E-mail System for SPAM Control” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(1), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120139

@article{Sheikh2021,
title = {A Cryptocurrency-based E-mail System for SPAM Control},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120139},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120139},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
author = {Shafiya Afzal Sheikh and M. Tariq Banday}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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