At 16:00 2003-07-27 -0400, Dick Adams wrote:
I'm thinking of a recipe to identify Nigerian fraud e-mails
and forward them to the appropriate criminal investigation
unit at 419(_dot_)fcd(_at_)usss(_dot_)treas(_dot_)gov
Automatically forwarding emails is fraught with problems. If you forward
off s few bogus messages, then the recipient agency might just decide to
block all further messages from you...
You could deposit them into a file, and after manually reviewing them,
forward them.
I use a recipe which scores on a variety of keywords and phrases (which are
easy to come up with if you've examined even a handful of 419 scam
messages), and once the threshold is exceeded, it gets flagged as a
nigerian scam. There are other ones cropping up too - ones using claims of
hidden Iraqi funds and the like.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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