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SPAM EMAIL DETECTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS USING SUPPORT VECTOR AND RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIERS

Samuel Chinedu Okafor·Grace Ifeoma Ojukwu·Chijioke Emmanuel Ibe
Published 19 February 2025
Vol. 11, No. 1 (2023)
pp. 20-31
CC BY 4.0
  1. 1
    Samuel Chinedu Okafor
    Department of Computer Science, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
    NG
  2. 2
    Grace Ifeoma Ojukwu
    Department of Information Technology, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
    NG
  3. 3
    Chijioke Emmanuel Ibe
    Department of Engineering, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
    NG

Email spam comes in various forms, the most popular being to promote outright scams or marginally legitimate business
schemes. Spam typically is used to promote access to inexpensive pharmaceutical drugs, weight loss programs, online degrees,
job opportunities and online gambling. Spam is commonly used to conduct email fraud. This paper presents a model for detecting
spam email using Support Vector Classifier and Random Forest Classifier. In this paper a ucl spambase dataset was trained using
Support Vector Classifier and Random Forest Classifier. Random Forest Classifier had about 91.36% which is the highest
accuracy while Support Vector Classifier had about 89.21% accuracy. This paper uses Random Forest Classifier in detecting
spam emails, which is then saved and loaded.

JournalArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Journal
ISSN3064-8270
Volume / IssueVol. 11, No. 1 (2023)
Pages20-31
Published19 February 2025
Access Open Access
LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Okafor, S., Ojukwu, G., Ibe, C. (2025). SPAM EMAIL DETECTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS USING SUPPORT VECTOR AND RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIERS. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Journal, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 20-31

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