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Statistically significant keywords in SPAM

1998-02-02 11:32:14
I found this in an article called "Fending Off Automated Mass Electronic
Mail: or, How to Distinguish Yourself from a Computer" by Tibor Beke, at
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_2/beke/

Maybe someone can use it to tweak their filters.

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Joel McNamara, publisher of the informal journal Popular Cryptography,
found the following spam keywords to be statistically significant:

  "remove" in the subject
  1-800
  1-900
  100% guaranteed
  Jesus Christ
  To be removed
  Visa
  absolutely free
  act now
  added bonus
  chain letter
  cost?
  dear sir
  don't delay
  entrepreneur
  extra income
  for detailed information
  for more information
  free copy
  free!
  friend
  here's how
  huge savings
  mlm
  money back
  money-order
  no risk
  now revealed
  order now
  remove@
  send check
  send to
  special offer
  to order
  under 18
  works!
  
-- 
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
vogelke(_at_)c17mis(_dot_)region2(_dot_)wpafb(_dot_)af(_dot_)mil

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