Yeah, I don't think either of these words by themselves would indicate anything, but "Confidentiality assured" seems to be a sure sign.
Steve
Loren Wilton wrote:
I just got a spam about diplomas which didn't get caught and noticed the phrase "Confidentiality assured" in the email.
Well, I can think of several reasons why confidential and confidentiality etc may be used in legit emails.
I receive many emails with confidentiality disclaimers attached at the bottom. I'm sure you may have seen a few. Disclaimers that say the contents of this email are confidential blah blah blah.
I know a rule based on those phrases would be give me a huge number of false positives.
A rule looking for "confidential" would certainly cause problems. I think I have yet to see one of those that includes "Confidentiality assured", or even "Confidentiality". A rule for the first one is unlikely to cause a great deal of problem for anyone other than spammers, and even the second one could be helpful if given a fairly low score. I believe someone ran those both through a corpus test, and they got very low, if any, ham hits.
Loren
