KR20110012018A - System and method for preventing reception of spam mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for preventing a spam mail are provided to transceive an e-mail without exposing an e-mail address of a user, thereby preventing a spam mail. CONSTITUTION: A registration processing unit(110) receives and registers an e-mail address. A URL allocating unit(120) allocates a URL corresponding to the registered e-mail address. A web page providing unit(130) provides the selected web page to a user terminal requesting an access to the allocated URL. An address mapping unit(140) maps the registered e-mail address on a temporary e-mail address. The user terminal transmits an e-mail through the provided web page.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING RECEPTION OF SPAM MAIL}

A system and method for preventing the reception of spam mail by sending and receiving email without exposing a user's email address.

Thanks to the rapid development of information and communication, the e-mail service to send and receive mail through the network is widely used.

As e-mail services are widely used, spam mails are quite organized and distributed in large quantities, creating inconveniences on the receiving side and in the use of system resources.

Spam is a one-way / bulk-mail sent to someone with a uniquely identifiable online address, often with no relationship between the sender and recipient.

At present, in order to prevent / avoid spam mails, filtering techniques, e-mail address concealment techniques, and the like have been developed.

The filtering technology is a technique that classifies or removes a high possibility of spam among the emails delivered to the user based on the contents of the email, the sender information, and the user's pattern input value.

However, filtering errors that inevitably result in false positives or false negatives are inevitable because the types of spam change from time to time, and techniques for avoiding filters are thus evolving.

Such filtering technology is always under the burden of presenting the filter information, and does not fundamentally block the spam sender's attack, so the spam traffic of the entire network tends to increase.

Email address concealment techniques are largely classified as concealment techniques using temporary addresses, concealment techniques using address extensions, and concealment techniques using address translation servers.

First, concealment techniques using temporary addresses use temporary email addresses in environments where a user's address may be abused.

You can also create these temporary addresses on your current mail server, but you can also use a dedicated service that provides temporary email accounts, such as mailinator.com.

However, concealment techniques using temporary addresses require access to a separate account to verify incoming email, which still has the problem of receiving spam.

In addition, the concealment technique using address extension is a technique of adding an arbitrary extension to an existing address, such as "plus addressing" of Google mail, and allows the user to check the range of addresses and, if necessary, adds a '+ extension' to the filter condition. "," You can give the user the "+ extension" you want, but you can't send an email with the "+ extension" as the sender's address. There is a problem.

In addition, spam attackers can easily obtain the original address of the '+ extension' address, and if the user does not manage the filter for the spam sent to the individual '+ extension', there is a problem that the spam cannot be blocked.

The concealment technique using an address translation server is a technique of maintaining a connection with a user's original account while providing a temporary address, for example, 'trashmail.net'.

The user registers his / her own address (user@gmail.com) while receiving a temporary address (eg xyz@trashmail.net) from 'trashmail.net'.

Therefore, the mail sent to xyz@trashmail.net from outside is received by the trashmail.net server and forwarded to the previously registered user@gmail.com.

By setting the number and validity of incoming mail for these temporary accounts, you can control the mail you receive from the temporary account, which provides a means of blocking spam (ie, at the server level).

However, the concealment technique using the address translation server also requires a new registration for each temporary address each time, and the longer the effective number of times or the duration of the temporary address, the greater the possibility of being exposed to the attack of spam mail.

The spam mail reception prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a registration processing unit for receiving and registering an e-mail address, a UEL allocation unit for allocating a UAL corresponding to the registered e-mail address, and the request for access to the assigned UAL. And a web page providing unit for providing a selected web page to the user terminal, wherein the user terminal transmits an e-mail through the provided web page.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a spam mail reception system includes a registration processing unit that receives an e-mail address and registers it, a Yuel allocator that allocates a Ual corresponding to the registered e-mail address, and accesses the allocated Ual. And a web page providing unit for providing a selected web page to the requesting user terminal, wherein the web page includes link information for sending an email to the email address, and the link information corresponds to the email address. It features.

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for preventing spam mail receiving and receiving an e-mail address and registering the received e-mail address may include allocating a UAL corresponding to the registered e-mail address, and requesting the user terminal to access the allocated UAL. Providing a selected web page, mapping the registered e-mail address to an arbitrary e-mail address, and processing such that the mapped e-mail address is displayed as a sender address on an e-mail to be sent.

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

In describing the present invention, when it is determined that detailed descriptions of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Terminology used herein is a term used to properly express a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which may vary according to a user, an operator's intention, or a custom in the field to which the present invention belongs. Therefore, the definitions of the terms should be made based on the contents throughout the specification. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a registration processing unit 110, a UEL allocation unit 120, and a web page providing unit 130.

A user requests registration of an e-mail address to the spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention using his terminal. Accordingly, the registration processing unit 110 receives the email address requested to be registered from the terminal of the user and registers the user with the service.

The registration process may be interpreted as membership.

Next, the UE allocation unit 120 allocates a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator) corresponding to the registered email address.

In other words, the UE allocation unit 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention assigns a UE that is uniquely identifiable and web-accessible to a user registered by the registration processing unit 110.

In the present specification, through the UAL, the same function as granting a kind of authority (password) to the user, but in addition to the UAL, it is also possible to grant the authority (password) to the user in a general ID / password method.

The web page providing unit 130 provides a selected web page to a user terminal requesting access to the allocated UAL using a web browser.

The provided web page will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

The selected web page may be used to send an email.

At this time, the web page does not actually display the e-mail address of the user terminal. Therefore, by using the spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the damage of spam mail.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include an address mapping unit 140 for mapping the registered email address to an arbitrary email address.

The address mapping unit 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention maps the mapped random email address to be displayed as a sender address on the transmitted email.

In other words, the receiving side receiving the email may determine that the mapped temporary email address is the sending email address. However, the temporary email address is a temporary generated email address and can be discarded after one use. In addition, it may be discarded when used for a predetermined number of times or used for a predetermined period according to the user's setting.

Therefore, the sender who collects the temporary e-mail address and sends spam mail is very likely to send the spam mail to the destroyed address.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a database 150 for storing the email address, the URL, and the arbitrary email address in association with each other.

That is, the spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention can be managed quickly and accurately even if the number of users who want to register increases.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a reply mail processing unit 160 to transmit a reply email to the email address.

That is, when a user who receives an e-mail having the random e-mail address as the sender address replies to the sender address (any e-mail address), the reply mail processing unit 160 refers to the database 150 to send the e-mail. You can check the address.

When the e-mail address is confirmed, the reply mail processing unit 160 may forward the reply e-mail to the e-mail address.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes user identification information of other users newly input by the user through a menu provided on the web page and an email address corresponding to the user identification information. It may further include an address book storage unit (not shown) for storing the.

For example, the user identification information may be information such as a user's name, social security number, telephone number, and the like.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the address book storage unit may further store whether or not the information is 'trusted' as one of the address book item attributes for each stored e-mail address. If the sender of the e-mail address set as 'trusted' is shown as the sender address, otherwise a randomly mapped sender address may be used.

Spam mail reception system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is complementary to receive the mail received to the temporary email address to the user's original email address account while using the coded temporary email address to send the email System.

As a result, by using the spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to prevent spam mail.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may use a coded temporary email address to receive an email.

For example, instead of informing the user of his or her e-mail address, the user informs the UAL of the web page according to an embodiment of the present invention, and another user who wants to send the e-mail to the user accesses the Web page through the UAL. To send an email to the user.

To this end, the spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to another embodiment of the present invention is a registration processing unit 110 for receiving and registering an email address, the UEL allocation for allocating the UAL corresponding to the registered email address The unit 120 may include a web page providing unit 130 for providing a web page selected for the user terminal requesting access to the allocated UAL.

In this case, the web page may include link information for sending an email to the email address, and the link information may correspond to the email address. The link information may include an icon assigned to an arbitrary position on the web page, and the email transmission may be processed according to the selection of the icon.

The configuration of selecting an e-mail sender using an icon assigned to the arbitrary location may prevent access by a program that collects e-mail addresses on the Internet, for example, 'spambot'.

Thus, the icon assigned to the arbitrary position may be replaced with another configuration. For example, an icon assigned to the arbitrary position may be substituted through image modulation, query / response, or the like.

The spam mail reception prevention system 100 according to another embodiment of the present invention may further include a database 150 to store an arbitrary email address corresponding to the email address. In addition, the spam email reception prevention system 100 according to another embodiment of the present invention may include an email processing unit (not shown) in order to process the sending of the email by setting the arbitrary email address as a destination address. .

In this case, the e-mail processing unit (not shown) may process an e-mail received by using the arbitrary e-mail address as a destination address to be delivered to the e-mail address.

As a result, an e-mail may be sent to the user only by the temporary e-mail address, even if the external e-mail address of the user does not know the e-mail address of the user.

The link information according to an embodiment of the present invention may be displayed in the form of an icon in a specific homepage as well as the web page.

In addition, the link information according to an embodiment of the present invention may be inserted in the signature portion of the email in the form of a hyperlink.

2 and 3 are diagrams illustrating a web page 200 provided to a spam mail prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 2, the web page 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a menu selection area 210, 220, 230, and 240, a reception address input area 211, and a reference address input area 212. , Bcc address input area 213, subject input area 214, email content input area 215, font type selection area 216, font size selection area 217, font effect selection area 218, and the like. It may include.

First, the menu selection areas 210, 220, 230, and 240 are a menu selection area 210 for creating an email, a menu selection area 220 for a reply email service, a menu selection area 230 for creating an address book, and It may include a menu selection area 240 for setting personal information.

For example, when the user selects the menu selection area 210, the email content input area 215 is loaded to enable the writing of an email.

In addition, when the user selects the menu selection area 220, the user may inform the user of the generated web page without notifying his or her e-mail address, thereby preventing direct exposure of the e-mail address.

Since the spam mail reception prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention maps and stores the email address of the user and the URL of the web page, the email address sent as the temporary email address through the URL is stored in the user's original email address. Can be forwarded to

The receiving address input area 211 is an area for inputting an email address of a user who directly receives an email, and the reference address input area 212 is an address for a user who refers to the email in addition to the user who directly receives the email. Is the area to input. In addition, the blind reference address input area 213 is an area for inputting an address for a user who is not displayed as a recipient of the email.

The font type selection area 216 is an area for selecting the type of font used in the e-mail content input area 215, and the font size selection area 217 is an area for selecting the size of the font. Also, the font effect selection area 218 may be interpreted as an area for selecting an effect such as making the font thicker, inclined, or underlining the font.

In addition, the web page 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a control area (not shown) for selecting sending, storing, and canceling an e-mail.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the user selects the menu selection area 220 as mentioned above, the user does not notify the other person of his or her e-mail address, but notifies the user of the generated web page. Exposure can be prevented.

According to the user's selection of the menu selection area 220, the UI of the generated web page is displayed in the UE display area 221.

That is, the web page 222 may be loaded when the UAL displayed on the UEL display area 221 is input on the web browser or when the UAL is clicked on the link.

The web page 222 may be slightly different from the web page that is actually loaded, but the web page 222 displays the loaded web page in the form of a preview.

The web page 222 may list and display figures, such as a rectangle, a circle, a triangle, and a star, together with a message for clicking a circle in order to send an email.

At this time, in order to send an e-mail, it is possible to fundamentally prevent spam mails that are mechanically sent by repeating simple operations through macros and the like by randomly changing the shapes to be clicked.

In FIG. 3, a randomly selected option is used as a figure, but each figure may be distinguished by colors.

The personal information display area 224 may further display the user's address information, telephone number information, and the like, thereby providing an email signature function.

Thus, using the spam email reception prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a user can send an email without exposing his or her email address, and the response can be confirmed in his or her original email account.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 4, a spam mail reception prevention method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described instead of the operation method of the spam mail reception prevention system. In addition, FIG. 4 shows not only an operation method of the spam mail reception prevention system but also an operation of a user terminal linked thereto.

First, the user terminal requests registration of an e-mail address to the spam mail reception prevention system (401).

Next, the spam mail reception prevention system receives and registers an e-mail of the user terminal according to a registration request from the user terminal (402).

In this case, the user may be a member of the spam mail reception prevention system, or may be audited or certified based on a selected criterion.

Next, the spam email reception prevention system allocates a Ual corresponding to the registered email address (step 403). At this time, the spam mail reception prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention may store the URL in association with the registered email address.

The user terminal assigned the UAL request the web page corresponding to the UAL (step 404), and the spam mail reception prevention system provides the web page to the user terminal according to the request (step 405).

The user terminal provided with the web page composes and sends an e-mail through the web page in step 406.

Only the email address of the receiving side is written in the created email.

More specifically, the spam mail reception prevention system maps the email address requested to be registered in step 401 to an arbitrary email address according to the sending request of the user terminal (step 407).

The random e-mail address is an e-mail address consisting of a combination of randomly generated numbers and letters and may be discarded after being used for a certain period or a certain number of times. As a specific example, an e-mail address may be configured in the form of 'ID @ mail server'. Only the 'ID' part of the e-mail address is randomly generated, and the 'mail server' part handles functions such as address mapping and verification. It may be processed as information of a server connected with an execution unit of a spam mail reception prevention function.

The spam email reception prevention system may know the email address from the random email address according to the mapping, and for this purpose, may be stored in association with the email address in the database.

Next, the spam email reception prevention system processes the mapped random email address to be displayed as a sender address and sends the email (step 408).

Thus, the receiving side receiving the email does not confirm the email address of the actual user, but rather the mapped random email address.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for preventing spam mail reception according to another embodiment of the present invention.

First, a method for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention receives a reply message returned to the random email address (501).

Next, the spam mail reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention confirms the random e-mail address in the received reply message, and extracts the e-mail address from the random e-mail address (502).

The method for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention forwards the reply message to the extracted email address (503).

Thus, the replying user can send a reply message without knowing the sender's actual e-mail address.

Spam mail reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide link information for sending an email to the arbitrary email address.

For example, in the signature portion of the e-mail sent to the first receiving party, link information linking a UAL for sending a reply message may be inserted and sent.

In this case, the receiving side receiving the first e-mail can create and send the reply message by clicking the link information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the number of times of use of the e-mail address mapped for reply is one time, the first reply mail may be replied to the sender address in the same way as the normal mail. At this time, the source address is a source address arbitrarily generated and shown to the receiving side, and the link sent to the receiving side may be used in the reply message when sending one or more e-mails.

In other words, an arbitrary mail address URL can be generated and provided through the link sent to the receiving end, or mail can be processed.

By using the spam mail reception system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to block the spam mail that inhibits normal email use.

This significantly reduces most of the problems caused by spam, including phishing issues faced by users, emotional damage from distributed pests, increased network load, and reduced productivity, thereby creating a healthy online email culture. Can be developed.

The method for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a spam mail reception prevention system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 and 3 are diagrams illustrating a web page provided to a system for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for preventing spam mail reception according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for preventing spam mail reception according to another embodiment of the present invention.

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A registration processing unit which receives and registers an e-mail address; A UAl allocator for allocating UAl corresponding to the registered e-mail address; And Web page providing unit for providing a selected web page to the user terminal requesting access to the allocated UAL Including, And the user terminal transmits an email through the provided web page. The method of claim 1, An address mapping unit for mapping the registered email address to an arbitrary email address Spam mail reception prevention system further comprises a. The method of claim 2, The address mapping unit, And the mapped random email address is displayed as a sender address on the transmitted email. The method of claim 3, The random e-mail address is destroyed after the mail is sent, spam spam reception system, characterized in that discarded after a predetermined number of times or a predetermined period elapsed. The method of claim 4, wherein And a database for associating and storing the email address, the URL, and the random email address. The method of claim 4, wherein Reply mail processing unit for forwarding the reply email returned to the arbitrary email address to the email address Spam mail reception prevention system further comprises a. The method of claim 1, Address book storage unit for storing the user identification information input through the web page and the email address corresponding to the user identification information Spam mail reception prevention system further comprises a. A registration processing unit which receives and registers an e-mail address; A UAl allocator for allocating UAl corresponding to the registered e-mail address; And Web page providing unit for providing a selected web page to the user terminal requesting access to the allocated UAL Including, The web page includes link information for sending an email to the email address, wherein the link information corresponds to the email address. The method of claim 8, The link information includes an icon assigned to an arbitrary position on the web page, and the email transmission prevention system is characterized in that the e-mail transmission is processed according to the selection of the icon. 10. The method of claim 9, A database storing an arbitrary email address corresponding to the email address Spam mail reception prevention system further comprises a. The method of claim 10, An email processing unit that processes the email transmission by setting the random email address as a destination address. Spam mail reception prevention system further comprises a. The method of claim 10, The email processing unit, And an e-mail received using the arbitrary e-mail address as a destination address to be delivered to the e-mail address. Receiving and registering an e-mail address; Allocating a URL corresponding to the registered e-mail address; Providing a selected web page to a user terminal requesting access to the allocated UAL; Mapping the registered email address to an arbitrary email address; And Processing the mapped e-mail address to be displayed as a sender address on a sent e-mail. Spam mail receiving prevention method comprising a. The method of claim 13, Forwarding a reply email that is returned to the arbitrary email address to the email address; Spam mail receiving prevention method further comprising a. The method of claim 13, Providing link information for sending an email to the arbitrary email address; Receiving an email in which the arbitrary email address is set as a called party address based on the provided link information; Verifying the email address from the random email address; And Forwarding the received email to the verified email address Spam mail receiving prevention method comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method of claim 13.

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