A Review Paper on Analysis of Decisive and Non-Intrusive Technique to Combat Form Spam

Abstract

Spammers and the spam e-mails are causing huge losses to businesses & individuals on a regular basis in
terms of time & money. Spam filtration is an automated technique to identify SPAM or HAM. Various types of spam
filters are designed with different approaches, each having their own pros and cons. But after studying various research
works it was found that among all, the two most widely used methods are HONEYPOT and CAPTCHA. These two
methods are also available in lots of variants. Through this research work, I have tried to analyse and identify best from
the above two methods to combat form spam. At first,I studied HONEYPOT and CAPTCHA. Then, I implemented these
two methods on various forms. Later, compared and contrasted these two methods on certain parameters, most
importantly on time scale basis and tried to find the method which will be able to identify more spams in less time, which
is more users friendly, provide easy accessibility, is more secured, and most importantly easily manageable.