Patent ID: 7711779

Claim:
A system that facilitates mitigation of outgoing spam, comprising: a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions to implement the system, including: a detection component employed by an outgoing message server that detects a potential spammer in connection with at least one outgoing message sent by an entity, the detection of a potential spammer being based in part on a total score per sender assigned to the entity of the at least one outgoing message exceeding a threshold score indicative of a spammer; and an action component that upon receiving information from the detection component that the entity is a potential spammer initiates at least one action to mitigate spam from the entity, wherein the at least one action includes limiting sending of outgoing messages by the entity to a specified volume of outgoing messages until a subset of the at least one outgoing message are manually inspected by a human inspector and confirmed by the human inspector as not being spam.