Correction:
That should be only caught 2 out of 5

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] "Nigerian" Filter Creator Helper
>
>
> I have been testing Kami's Nigerian filter and found that in 3 days it
> flagged 56 email and only caught out of 5 nigerian scam emails.
>
> I do not see this as a fault of Kami's effort but a fault of
> filtering. Some
> of the line are very common in ligitimate email. I even lowered all the
> weights to match our weighting scores. We will not be using it. Once I did
> that then the nigerian scam email did not get enough weight to be flagged
> properly.
>
> For the effort it is not worth the results, in my opinion.
>
> Kevin Bilbee
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:59 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] "Nigerian" Filter Creator Helper
> >
> >
> > > Why not use Kami's Nigerian Filter?  He's done all of the work for
> > > you. Just remember to thank him.
> >
> > That sounds interesting, how about a pointer to Kami's site/email/etc.?
> > (Or am I just too far out of it and missed the obvious location
> > somehwere...?)
> >
> > Thanks, and in advance, thanks to Kami and everyone who has
> > created a filter which I might ever use or use for inspiration.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Geiser
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:15 PM To:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] "Nigerian"
> > > > Filter Creator Helper
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello, All,
> > > > I'm looking for a type of utility that either specifically
> > > > was written to do
> > > > what I describe below or a utility which is a broad-based text
> > > > massaging/manipulation utility which could be twisted to do
> > > > the following.
> > > >
> > > > I would like a utility that I could feed the bodies of
> > > > nigerian scam letters
> > > > into and it would basically create a list of all phrases of
> > > > world length X
> > > > to Y where X and Y are both numbers.  It would capture
> > > > information from each
> > > > scam letter that I feed in and would generate an ordered list
> > > > of each time
> > > > the X to Y word length phrase appears in each letter.
> > > >
> > > > So, for example, if my X and Y were 3 and 5 it would generate
> > > > a list of all
> > > > 3 word, 4 word and 5 word phrases found in each message.
> > > > Then it would add
> > > > 1 to the tally of each time this phrase is found in any given unique
> > > > nigerian scam letter.  After I submit a certain letters, e.g. 20
> > > > (?), I would have a list of very commonly found phrases in Nigerian
> > > > scam letters. I could then create a custom filter for DJM based on
> > > > those phrases.
> > > >
> > > > Ultimately my filter might look something like...
> > > >
> > > > # JunkMail.Filter.Nigerian.txt
> > > >
> > > > BODY 10 CONTAINS Nigerian Federal Ministry
> > > > BODY 10 CONTAINS prayed for ALLAHS devine mercies
> > > > BODY 10 CONTAINS shores of Nigeria
> > > > BODY 10 CONTAINS we solicit for your
> > > >
> > > > I was hoping that their might be a small utility that some of
> > > > the Nigerian
> > > > scam fighting organizations had released to generate keyphrase
> > > > lists.
> > > >
> > > > Does this sound like a decent idea?  Are there any good
> > > > utilities to do
> > > > this?  Or is this something I'd have to write myself?  Would it be
> > > > prohibitively complicated to write a program like this for a person
> > > > who hasn't done much programming?  Or is this pretty
> > > > straightforward?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks In Advance,
> > > > Dan
> > > >
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