Mobile SMS Spam Detection using

Machine Learning Techniques

Shah Jainam Rhythm Patel
B.Tech IT B.Tech IT
Indus University Indus University
Ahmedabad, India Ahmedabad, India
jainamshah.21.it@iite.indusuni.ac.in patelrhythm.21.it@iite.indusuni.ac.in

Malav Raval Sumitsinh Rahevar Author: Sejal Thakkar

B.Tech IT B.Tech IT Indus University
Indus University Indus University Ahmedabad, India
Ahmedabad, India Ahmedabad, India sejalthakkar.ce@indusuni.ac.in
malavraval.21.it@iite.indusuni.ac.in sumitrahevar.21.it@iite.indusuni.ac.in

Abstract— Unwanted texts, or spam Introduction.

SMS, can be concerning and occasionally
harmful to users. There will now be a
collection of survey studies on methods
for detecting SMS spam. examine and
evaluate the methods, strategies, and
algorithms they employed, as well as
their benefits and drawbacks, assessment
metrics, dataset discussions, and,
ultimately, an assessment of the
research's conclusions. Unfortunately,
none of the current research addresses the
issues posed by using shortened words
and local contents in SMS spam
detection approaches, despite the fact that
these methods are more demanding than
those used in other types of spam
detection. There is a vast amount of
unfinished research in this area, and this
survey can serve as a guide for future
study directions.
Keywords: Mobile SMS spam Detection
Small Message Once Over (SMS) is the most
popular and widely utilized type of messaging.
In many regions of the world, the term "SMS"
refers to both user activity and all forms of short
text messaging. It has evolved into a platform
for product announcements, product
endorsements, banking updates, agricultural
data, flight updates, and online specials. SMS is
also used in direct marketing, sometimes
known as SMS marketing. Users may
occasionally find SMS marketing to be
problematic. We refer to these kind of
messages as spam. Spam is defined as one or
more unsolicited messages that people do not
wish to receive, send, or post as part of a
better collection of messages, all of which
have a significant amount of similarity.
Background and related work
The most popular and widely used messaging
format is short message service (SMS). Many
places throughout the world use the term "SMS" to
refer to both user activity and all forms of short text
messaging. It has evolved into a platform for
product announcements and endorsements, as well
as for financial and agriculture updates, airline
information, and online discounts. SMS is
 also used in SMS marketing, which is a type of
direct marketing. Users occasionally experience
difficulties with SMS marketing. Spam SMS is
the term for these types of messages. Spam is
defined as one or more unsolicited messages that
are posted or transmitted by users as part of a
larger collection of messages that are all
remarkably similar.
Naïve Bayes.
The Bayesian approach is a probabilistic one that
begins with an initial belief, takes in some facts, and
then modifies that belief. By using the Bayesian
technique to analyze the word's frequency in spam
and harm messages, one may determine whether a
word is spam or not [12].
Support vector Machine. (SVM) Support vector
machines are capable of supervised learning
through the use of connected algorithms that
analyze regression analysis and the data utilized
for classification. The SVM teaching method
builds a model that can assign new examples based
on spam and rightful group if a set of teaching
examples comprising spam and rightful SMS is
known. An SVM model is a representation of the
example since it maps a point in space such that
examples of the divide category are as widely
apart as is practical.[9]
Decision Trees.
A decision hierarchy is a tool for decision
assistance that counts the likelihood of event
outcomes and uses a hierarchy that is
comparable to or a model of decisions and
their anticipated punishment. To decide if a
new communication is
spam or ham, one can utilize a decision tree.
[11]
Logistic Regression
Logistic regression is a type of regression used
in predictive analysis. The goal of logistic
regression is to explain the data and its
relationship between a dependent binary
variable (i.e. rank, interval, or percentile) and
one or several independent variables
Random Forest
An ensemble of decision trees is referred to by
the trademark term Random Forest. We have a
collection of decision trees in random forests.
Each tree casts a vote for the class that best fits
the new object based on its properties. Out of all
the trees in the forest, the category with the
highest votes is chosen by the forest.
Spam filtering process
Spam and harm messages that are physically
private can be input or used as a teaching tool
for spam filtering algorithms. The following
steps make up the algorithm.
Preprocessing.
As part of the data preprocessing, stop words
and other unnecessary components are
removed.
Tokenization.
dividing the message into sections based on
words, characters, or tokens. Tokenization can
be achieved by various methods, including
word tokenization, phrase tokenization,
orthogonal sparse bigrams, and word or
character N-grams.
Representation.
Transformation to pairwise attribute values

Selection.
Rather than picking every pair of attribute values,
prioritize the attributes that would crash the most
during classification.
Training.
teach the algorithm by way of the chosen quality
values.
Testing.
instruct the algorithm using the selected quality levels.
Study Selection Procedure :
close to a few relevant studies Our primary search
engine was Google Academic. We have several
articles from it together, and there are many more
conferences and journals that we have created from
side to side, such as IEEExplore, IJCSI ITJ ACM,
etc. Google educational tool There are numerous
references in the journals and conference files, just
as in every other place where we have chosen a
paper. We also looked over the referenced studies
and used several of them as models for our work.
We employed the linked articles and cited feature of
Google Scholar as part of our search process.
Table 1. SMS Spam Detection Dataset
description
Validation of the study :
close to a few relevant studies Our primary
search engine was Google Academic. We
have several articles from it together, and
there are many more conferences and
journals that we have created from side to
side, such as IEEExplore, IJCSI ITJ ACM,
etc. Google educational tool There are
numerous references in the journals and
conference files, just as in every other place
where we have chosen a paper. We also
looked over the referenced studies and used
several of them as models for our work. We
employed the linked articles and cited
feature of Google Scholar as part of our
search process.
Result Analysis:
To enhance impressions in the spam detection
field, we first physically searched on top of
Google using the term "spam detection." This
led us to numerous papers that were related to
SMS spam detection. Afterward, we changed
our search to only include mobile SMS spam
detection. Thirteen papers published in various
conferences and journals pertaining solely to
the topic of mobile SMS spam detection have
been selected as part of our study selection
process.
Dataset Description:
An initial dataset is required for various
machine learning classification algorithms.
The dataset affects the machine knowledge
algorithms' results. since a dataset is not
necessary for spam detection algorithms to
function. We generated distinct publicly
available datasets that are utilized in various
research projects. table [13] displays the
dataset's link as well as a number of statistics,
including the total number of SMS messages
that contain spam and ham.
 Conclusion.
The results of a thorough study of the
literature on SMS spam detection are
presented in this paper. We selected
thirteen research papers in this area and
examined the methods they suggested.
benefits and drawbacks. the difficulties
they dealt with. We looked into their
assessment practices as well. We
presented the information from the
publicly accessible dataset, which was
previously in need of a spam filtering
method.
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