KR20020001159A - Method for preventing spam mails by phantom ID - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for preventing a spam mail is provided to prevent a spam mail which is sent to a private person at random. CONSTITUTION: An enterpriser supplying a mail service creates an ID indicating a subscriber included in the enterpriser's service member information, and registers at a member DB(S1,S2). The ID periodically connects and acts to a service as a real ID by a program(S3). Senders of the spam mail collect the IDs exposed to the service with general IDs and send all kinds of mails(S4,S5). When a mail is stored in a mail system(mail sever) of the company, the mail system judges whether the ID is included in receiver IDs by comparing the receiver IDs of the mail with a member information of a user(S6,S7). When the ID is included in the receiver IDs, the mail is a spam mail. When the mail is the spam mail, a transmission of the mail is reserved. When the ID is not included therein or the mail is not the spam mail, the mail is normally sent to the user' mail box(S8,S9,S10).

Description

Method for preventing spam mails by phantom ID}

The present invention relates to a method for preventing spam mails indiscriminately sent without the user's consent by collecting emails on the Internet without permission, and more particularly, to a spam mail prevention method using a ghost ID.

In general, the Internet consists of a number of computers and computer networks interconnected via communication links. Interconnected computers can exchange information using a variety of services such as e-mail, gopher, FTP, and the World Wide Web (WWW). Or web page information written in XML) to remote client systems. Each resource on the web (i.e. computer or web page) is given a unique uniform resource locator (URL), and in order to view a particular web page, the client system designates the URL of that web page and sends it according to the HTTP protocol. If so, the server system sends corresponding web page information correspondingly. When the client system receives the web page, the client system typically displays it on the monitor through a browser.

Recently, as the number of users using the Internet has exploded, many applications have been developed, and various Internet businesses have been provided in a cyber space. In particular, many Internet service providers provide a mail service to secure customers, and many people use a mail service to exchange necessary information.

However, as the number of mail customers increases on the Internet, some advertisers randomly collect user IDs on the Internet, randomly distributing advertisement mails that users do not want (this is called spam mail), and waste of network resources due to unnecessary traffic. And, the resources of the mail server is wasted, users are annoyed by unnecessary mail flooding. In other words, spam mail is advertising mail that is unilaterally delivered to people with PC communication or Internet ID. It is also called junk mail, and it is delivered to people with communication IDs indiscriminately. Is a lot of time and money to read or process.

An object of the present invention is to provide a spam mail prevention method using a ghost ID to block spam mail distributed randomly using a ghost ID in order to solve the above problems.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a spam mail prevention concept according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for preventing spam mail according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

102: authentication server 104: mail server

106: mailspool 110: user mailbox

In order to achieve the above object, the method of the present invention generates and registers a ghost ID, operates as a normal ID, exposes the ID collector for spam mail, and then examines the received ID of the mail to check the ghost ID. If it is included, it is determined whether the mail is spam, and if it is a spam mail, the spam mail is deleted and the spam mail can be blocked in advance.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a spam mail blocking concept according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, if there is a mail to be transmitted, the mail server 104 requests authentication from the authentication server 102 to authenticate the mail, and delivers the mail to be sent to the mail spool 106. The mail spool 106 checks the recipient ID, and if the mail includes the ghost ID, determines whether the mail is spam by parsing the body and applying a predetermined rule (Rule Set) 108. If it is not a spam mail or a ghost ID is sent to the user mailbox 110.

As described above, the present invention sets a trap (ghost ID) among the e-mail addresses that spam mail senders collect illegally, and effectively extracts spam mails trapped in the trap and removes them before being sent to the recipient. Therefore, Internet users are free from spam mails, and operators can provide efficient services, and can effectively sanction spam mails, which become hotbeds of various indecent / illegal data transactions.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for preventing spam mail according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a service provider that provides a mail service generates a phantom (phantom) ID for which a subscriber does not exist in a service member information of a service provider and registers it in a member DB (S1 and S2).

The ghost ID is periodically connected to the service by the program in the same manner as the real ID (S3). At this time, the connection and activity of the ghost ID is only a record on the system attracting mail list collectors, and there is no communication activity with Thai users.

Spam mailers collect ghost IDs exposed to the service along with general IDs and send all kinds of mails such as inducement of illegal data sales (S4, S5). At this time, those who want to secure a spam mail list are collected indiscriminately by capturing the user ID list or the post publisher ID, etc. that are using the service.

When the mail is stored in the company's mail system (mail server), the company's mail system checks the recipient IDs of the mail and the user member information to determine whether a ghost ID exists among the recipient IDs (S6, S7). If a ghost ID exists, it is determined whether it is spam mail, and if it is spam mail, the transmission is suspended.

As described above, the present invention is to expose the ghost ID to various services, and if spam senders collect unauthorized spam and send spam mail, it is effectively extracted and removed before being sent to the recipient. Therefore, Internet users are free from spam mails, and operators can provide efficient services, and can effectively sanction spam mails, which become hotbeds of various indecent / illegal data transactions.

Claims (1)

After creating and registering a ghost ID, it operates like a normal ID and is exposed to the ID collector for spam mail. Spam using the ghost ID, characterized in that by checking the received ID of the mail to determine if the mail containing the ghost ID is spam mail, if the spam mail, delete the spam mail in advance to block the sending of the spam mail How to prevent mail.