📱Adversarial Attacks on SMS Spam Detectors

Note: The methodology behind the approach discussed in this post stems from a collaborative publication between myself and Irene Anthi. Spam SMS text messages often show up unexpectedly on our phone screens. That's aggravating enough, but it gets worse. Whoever is sending you a spam text message is usually trying to defraud you. Most spam text messages don't come from another phone.