One of my favorites 419 (advance-fee fraud) scams is the one about a disease that has "defiled" all forms of treatment. As with most 419's, only the names change:
>My name is Shadak Shari, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been >diagnosed with prostate and esophageal Cancer that was discovered very >late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all form >of medicine and right now, I have only about a few months to live >according to medical experts. and a few hours later: >My name is Albert ahmed, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been >diagnosed with prostate and esophageal Cancer that was discovered very >late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all form >of medicine and right now, I have only about a few months to live >according to medical experts. and the next day: >My name is Abdulaziz� Mohamed, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have >been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer.�It has defiled all forms of medical >treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according >to medical experts. Oh, to think of all those poor suffering merchants in Dubai! :-) Pierre Thomson BIC -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:30 PM To: Matt Kettler Cc: Chris Santerre; [email protected] Subject: RE: New fraud that seems to be slipping through ... OKOKOK... This could go around in circles. /I AM MR\./ 0/7370s, 0/3711h /I AM MR/ 2/7370s, 0/3711h The two that matched were actually "I AM MRS.". Most in my corpus are *not* in all-caps. Thus: /I AM MRS?[\.\s]/i 8/7370s, 0/3711h Personally, I wouldn't give this any score to speak of, but (after a larger corpus test), I would use it as part of a meta rule with other Nigerian bits. - Ryan
