📩 Spam Message Detection System

NLP-Powered SMS Spam Classifier with Real-Time Confidence Scoring

Intelligent SMS filtering using NLP and Deep Learning

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📋 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Features
• Demo
• How It Works
• Tech Stack
• Installation
• Usage
• Model Architecture
• Performance
• Dataset
• API Documentation
• Deployment
• Contributing
• License

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🎯 Overview

A machine learning-powered application that identifies spam messages using Natural Language Processing (NLP). The system:

• 📱 Analyzes SMS/text messages in real-time
• 🎯 Classifies text as Spam or Ham (legitimate)
• 📊 Provides confidence scores for predictions
• ⚡ Processes messages instantly with <100ms latency
• 🎨 Features an intuitive web interface

Why This Matters

With over 45% of SMS messages being spam globally, this tool helps:

• 🛡️ Protect users from phishing attempts
• 💰 Prevent financial scams
• 🔒 Filter malicious links and content
• ⏰ Save time by auto-filtering unwanted messages

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✨ Features

🤖 Core Capabilities

• ✅ NLP-Based Classification - Advanced text processing
• ✅ TF-IDF Vectorization - Smart feature extraction
• ✅ Deep Learning Model - TensorFlow/Keras neural network
• ✅ Real-Time Prediction - Instant message analysis
• ✅ Confidence Scoring - Probability-based results
• ✅ Batch Processing - Analyze multiple messages
• ✅ Interactive Dashboard - Streamlit web interface

📊 Advanced Features

• ✅ Multi-Language Support - Detect spam in various languages
• ✅ Pattern Recognition - Identify common spam patterns
• ✅ URL Detection - Flag suspicious links
• ✅ Phone Number Extraction - Identify spam sender patterns
• ✅ Export Results - Download classification reports
• ✅ API Integration - RESTful API for developers

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🎬 Demo

Web Interface

# Launch the Streamlit app
streamlit run app.py

Sample Predictions

Message	Classification	Confidence
"Congratulations! You've won $1000. Click here to claim!"	🚫 SPAM	98.7%
"Hey, are we still meeting for lunch at 1pm?"	✅ HAM	95.3%
"URGENT: Your account will be suspended. Verify now!"	🚫 SPAM	99.2%
"Thanks for the help yesterday. Really appreciate it!"	✅ HAM	96.8%

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🔬 How It Works

Processing Pipeline

┌──────────────┐
│ Input Text   │
│ "FREE PRIZE" │
└──────┬───────┘
       │
       ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│ Text Cleaning    │
│ • Lowercase      │
│ • Remove punct.  │
│ • Tokenization   │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│ Feature          │
│ Extraction       │
│ • TF-IDF         │
│ • N-grams        │
│ • Word vectors   │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│ Neural Network   │
│ Classification   │
│ • Dense layers   │
│ • Dropout        │
│ • Softmax output │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│ Prediction       │
│ SPAM: 98.7%      │
│ HAM:  1.3%       │
└──────────────────┘

Code Example

from spam_detector import SpamDetector

# Initialize detector
detector = SpamDetector(model_path='models/spam_classifier.h5')

# Analyze single message
message = "Congratulations! You've won a FREE iPhone. Click here now!"
result = detector.predict(message)

print(f"Classification: {result['class']}")
print(f"Confidence: {result['confidence']:.2%}")
print(f"Spam Score: {result['spam_probability']:.2%}")

Output:

Classification: SPAM
Confidence: 98.7%
Spam Score: 98.7%

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Machine Learning	NLP & Data
Web & Deployment	Tools

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📥 Installation

Quick Start

# 1. Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/ares-coding/spam-message-detection.git
cd spam-message-detection

# 2. Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

# 3. Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 4. Download NLTK data
python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('stopwords'); nltk.download('punkt')"

# 5. Run the app
streamlit run app.py

Docker Deployment

# Build image
docker build -t spam-detector .

# Run container
docker run -p 8501:8501 spam-detector

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🚀 Usage

1. Web Interface (Streamlit)

streamlit run app.py

Visit http://localhost:8501 and start classifying messages!

2. Python API

from spam_detector import SpamDetector
import pandas as pd

# Initialize detector
detector = SpamDetector()

# Single message prediction
message = "Win a FREE trip to Bahamas! Call now!"
result = detector.predict(message)

print(f"Is Spam: {result['is_spam']}")
print(f"Confidence: {result['confidence']:.2%}")

# Batch prediction
messages = [
    "Hey, want to grab coffee?",
    "URGENT: Your account needs verification",
    "Meeting rescheduled to 3pm tomorrow"
]

results = detector.predict_batch(messages)
df = pd.DataFrame(results)
print(df)

3. REST API

# Start Flask API server
python api.py

# Make prediction request
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/predict \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "FREE PRIZE! Click now!"}'

Response:

{
  "message": "FREE PRIZE! Click now!",
  "is_spam": true,
  "confidence": 0.987,
  "spam_probability": 0.987,
  "ham_probability": 0.013,
  "detected_patterns": ["FREE", "PRIZE", "Click now"],
  "risk_level": "HIGH"
}

4. Command Line

# Classify single message
python classify.py --text "Your message here"

# Classify from file
python classify.py --file messages.txt --output results.csv

# Batch processing
python classify.py --batch input_folder/ --output output_folder/

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🧠 Model Architecture

Neural Network Structure

model = Sequential([
    # Input layer
    Dense(128, activation='relu', input_shape=(5000,)),
    Dropout(0.5),
    
    # Hidden layers
    Dense(64, activation='relu'),
    Dropout(0.4),
    
    Dense(32, activation='relu'),
    Dropout(0.3),
    
    # Output layer
    Dense(2, activation='softmax')  # Binary classification
])

model.compile(
    optimizer='adam',
    loss='categorical_crossentropy',
    metrics=['accuracy']
)

Training Configuration

Parameter	Value
Epochs	10
Batch Size	32
Optimizer	Adam
Learning Rate	0.001
Validation Split	20%
Early Stopping	Enabled (patience=3)

Feature Engineering

TF-IDF Vectorization:

• Max Features: 5000
• N-gram Range: (1, 2) - unigrams and bigrams
• Min Document Frequency: 2
• Max Document Frequency: 95%

Text Preprocessing:

1. Convert to lowercase
2. Remove punctuation and special characters
3. Remove stop words (English)
4. Tokenization
5. Lemmatization

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📊 Performance

Model Metrics

Metric	Score
Accuracy	98.2%
Precision (Spam)	97.8%
Recall (Spam)	96.5%
F1-Score	97.1%
AUC-ROC	0.99

Confusion Matrix

                Predicted
               HAM    SPAM
Actual  HAM    965      12
       SPAM     18     505

Classification Report

              precision    recall  f1-score   support

         HAM       0.98      0.99      0.98       977
        SPAM       0.98      0.97      0.97       523

    accuracy                           0.98      1500
   macro avg       0.98      0.98      0.98      1500
weighted avg       0.98      0.98      0.98      1500

Performance Benchmarks

Operation	Time
Single Message	45ms
Batch (100 msgs)	1.2s
Model Load Time	850ms
Preprocessing	15ms
Prediction	30ms

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📁 Dataset

Dataset Information

• Source: SMS Spam Collection Dataset (UCI ML Repository)
• Total Messages: 5,574
• Ham Messages: 4,827 (86.6%)
• Spam Messages: 747 (13.4%)
• Languages: Primarily English

Sample Data

Label	Message
ham	"Ok lar... Joking wif u oni..."
spam	"Free entry in 2 a wkly comp to win FA Cup final tkts..."
ham	"U dun say so early hor... U c already then say..."
spam	"XXXMobileMovieClub: To use your credit, click the WAP link..."

Data Distribution

Class Balance:
├── HAM:  86.6% (4,827 messages)
└── SPAM: 13.4% (747 messages)

Message Length Distribution:
├── Min:  2 characters
├── Max:  910 characters
├── Avg:  80 characters
└── Median: 62 characters

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🌐 API Documentation

Endpoints

POST /predict

Classify a single SMS message.

Request:

{
  "message": "Congratulations! You've won $5000. Click here to claim your prize!"
}

Response:

{
  "message": "Congratulations! You've won $5000...",
  "is_spam": true,
  "confidence": 0.992,
  "spam_probability": 0.992,
  "ham_probability": 0.008,
  "risk_level": "HIGH",
  "detected_patterns": [
    "Congratulations",
    "won",
    "prize",
    "Click here"
  ],
  "features": {
    "has_url": false,
    "has_phone": false,
    "exclamation_marks": 2,
    "capital_ratio": 0.15
  },
  "timestamp": "2025-02-13T10:30:45Z"
}

POST /batch

Classify multiple messages.

Request:

{
  "messages": [
    "Hey, want to meet for coffee?",
    "WIN FREE PRIZES NOW!!!",
    "Your package has been delivered"
  ]
}

Response:

{
  "results": [
    {"index": 0, "is_spam": false, "confidence": 0.954},
    {"index": 1, "is_spam": true, "confidence": 0.998},
    {"index": 2, "is_spam": false, "confidence": 0.923}
  ],
  "summary": {
    "total": 3,
    "spam_count": 1,
    "ham_count": 2,
    "avg_confidence": 0.958
  }
}

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📁 Project Structure

spam-message-detection/
├── 📁 data/
│   ├── raw/
│   │   └── spam.csv                    # Original dataset
│   ├── processed/
│   │   ├── X_train.npy                 # Training features
│   │   ├── X_test.npy                  # Test features
│   │   ├── y_train.npy                 # Training labels
│   │   └── y_test.npy                  # Test labels
│   └── models/
│       ├── spam_classifier.h5          # Trained model
│       └── tfidf_vectorizer.pkl        # TF-IDF vectorizer
├── 📁 src/
│   ├── preprocessing.py                # Text preprocessing
│   ├── feature_extraction.py           # TF-IDF vectorization
│   ├── model.py                        # Neural network
│   ├── train.py                        # Training script
│   └── predict.py                      # Prediction functions
├── 📁 notebooks/
│   ├── 01_data_exploration.ipynb       # EDA
│   ├── 02_preprocessing.ipynb          # Text cleaning
│   ├── 03_model_training.ipynb         # Model development
│   └── 04_evaluation.ipynb             # Performance analysis
├── 📁 api/
│   ├── app.py                          # Flask API
│   ├── schemas.py                      # Pydantic models
│   └── utils.py                        # Helper functions
├── 📁 web/
│   └── streamlit_app.py                # Streamlit interface
├── 📁 tests/
│   ├── test_preprocessing.py
│   ├── test_model.py
│   └── test_api.py
├── app.py                              # Main Streamlit app
├── classify.py                         # CLI tool
├── requirements.txt                    # Dependencies
├── Dockerfile                          # Docker configuration
└── README.md                           # This file

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🚀 Deployment

Streamlit Cloud

# Push to GitHub
git push origin main

# Deploy on Streamlit Cloud
# Visit: https://share.streamlit.io

Heroku

# Create Heroku app
heroku create spam-detector-app

# Deploy
git push heroku main

# Open app
heroku open

Docker

# Build
docker build -t spam-detector:latest .

# Run
docker run -d -p 8501:8501 spam-detector:latest

# Access
open http://localhost:8501

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🧪 Testing

# Run all tests
pytest tests/ -v

# Test with coverage
pytest --cov=src tests/

# Test specific module
pytest tests/test_model.py -v

# Generate HTML coverage report
pytest --cov=src --cov-report=html tests/

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit changes (git commit -m 'Add AmazingFeature')
4. Push to branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open Pull Request

Development Setup

# Install development dependencies
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

# Install pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install

# Run linting
flake8 src/
black src/

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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👤 Author

Au Amores - Full Stack Developer & ML Engineer

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• UCI Machine Learning Repository for the dataset
• TensorFlow and Keras teams
• NLTK contributors
• Streamlit community

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📚 Citation

@software{spam_message_detection,
  author = {Amores, Au},
  title = {Spam Message Detection using NLP and Deep Learning},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://github.com/ares-coding/spam-message-detection}
}

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🔮 Future Enhancements

• Multi-language spam detection
• WhatsApp/Telegram integration
• Browser extension
• Mobile app (React Native)
• Real-time learning from user feedback
• Explainable AI (LIME/SHAP)
• Email spam detection
• Image-based spam detection

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