Obviously you wouldn't rely on just one phrase from each hoax. Since
the full texts of every popular hoax is on the Internet, it would be
very easy to create meta rules that only trigger if enough phrases exist
in the email to be sure that it is the hoax.
Gary Smith wrote:
"Microsoft will pay [for it in the future if they keep doing things the way they do them]" seems to be included on most anti microsoft email lists (such as apache, horde, etc).
I'm not sure if there is a good way to solve problems like these without generating some FP's
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From: Steve Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 5/20/2004 11:26 AM
To: Eric Toll
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scoring Hoaxes
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:02PM -0400, Eric Toll is rumored to have said:
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates
sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later. Microsoft and
AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure
that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and
AOLare running an e-mail beta test
When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track
it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
<snip>
This one has been going around for a few years....
Anyone care to share anti-hoax rules.
bayes
"sharing his fortune"
"forward this e-mail"
"Microsoft will pay"
I'm sure some meta rules could be created using the above phrases. Probably
others, too.
--
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
