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Re: any good patterns for catching 419 spam?

2003-06-06 16:31:13
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, David W. Tamkin wrote:

The volume of 419 spam I'm getting has suddenly skyrocketed, and I'm
sick of deleting it manually.  Does anyone have a good way for procmail
to spot it?

There are upwards of 50 regular expressions for matching Nigerian-type
scams in the latest SpamAssassin rules files.  Without getting into too
much detail, it generally requires hits on upwards of any four of those
to "confirm" that a message is such a scam.

You can get the spamassassin rules files from spamassassin.sourceforge.net
using CVS.  Looks like you'd want 20_head_tests.cf, 20_meta_tests.cf,
and 20_phrases.cf from the spamassassin/rules/ directory.  (There are
lots of other regexes in those files besides the Nigerian ones, but grep
for "NIGERIAN_".)


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