Detecting spam comments with malicious users' behavioral characteristics

In recent years, the spread of spam comments has become a main obstacle which limits the development of commercialized social networks. This paper analyzes the differences of behavioral characteristics between normal users and malicious users. Based on these characteristics, we propose several heuristic methods to detect spam comments. These methods evaluate comments from three perspectives, including time-frequency characteristic of comments, text similarity of comments and the number of target domains each user's comments refer to. In our collected dataset, our experimental results indicate the accuracy of our detection strategy I (strategy for high accuracy) and strategy II (strategy for wide coverage) are 100% and 92.6%, respectively. The preliminary evaluation of the proposed detection methods shows promising result.