Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2012-04-12
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
20 pages
Scientific paper
Recently, online video chat services are becoming increasingly popular. While experiencing tremendous growth, online video chat services have also become yet another spamming target. Unlike spam propagated via traditional medium like emails and social networks, we find that spam propagated via online video chat services is able to draw much larger attention from the users. We have conducted several experiments to investigate spam propagation on Chatroulette - the largest online video chat website. We have found that the largest spam campaign on online video chat websites is dating scams. Our study indicates that spam carrying dating or pharmacy scams have much higher clickthrough rates than email spam carrying the same content. In particular, dating scams reach a clickthrough rate of 14.97%. We also examined and analysed spam prevention mechanisms that online video chat websites have designed and implemented. Our study indicates that the prevention mechanisms either harm legitimate user experience or can be easily bypassed.
Ahn Junho
Han Richard
Lee Wenke
Mishra Shivakant
Xing Xinyu
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