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Re: any good patterns for catching 419 spam?

2003-06-06 16:47:13
At 16:18 2003-06-06 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
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.

I've got a collection of keywords and phrases, each of which has a different weighting.

"ministry", "private security firm", and the like.


Recently, the only one that has slipped through is a variant based on iraq.

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