Posts

Showing posts from January, 2024

Detecting Spam/Fraud mail

Image
There are various measures by which fraud mails can be detected. Before that, lets me brief out a little about Digital S ignatures . A digital signature is a mathematical technique used to validate the authenticity and integrity of a digital document, message or software. It's the digital equivalent of a handwritten signature or stamped seal, but it offers far more inherent security. It is based on public key cryptography . Asymmetric  algorithms like RSA are used for digital signatures. A digital signature is intended to solve the problem of tampering and impersonation in digital communications. With reference to the image, the email address of the sender is same however one of them is a fraud and the other is the genuine mail. I was exploring both the instances and then figured out that a genuine mail will always contain a digital signature which provides authenticity and timestamp of the document or message sent by the  sender. The fraudulent mail does not contain the digi...