METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SUSPICIOUS, DECEPTIVE, AND DANGEROUS LINKS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

摘要

Described are apparatus and methods for the analysis of characteristics of links intended to deceive a message recipient. The analysis can be employed at the receiving client, an intermediate server, or at other points to help protect the user from fraud without blocking legitimate content. For example, this analysis can be used to warn users attempting to follow such links. This analysis can also be used to mark the links in an indicative way on display. This analysis can also be used as input to spam-scoring algorithms.