International Business Machines Corporation
Outgoing communication scam prevention

Abstract:

One embodiment provides a method comprising intercepting an incoming communication for a user, and determining whether to classify the incoming communication as a suspicious incoming communication based on content of the incoming communication and a learned classification model or learned signatures. The method further comprises monitoring one or more outgoing communications from the user, and invoking an action relating to scam prevention in response to determining an outgoing communication from the user is linked to a suspicious incoming communication.