Kevin,

I also have been using Kami's Nigerian stuff, however I modified it a great deal and removed some of the lines that I felt were too common, I reduced scores, and capped the score at 80% of my hold weight.  The result is that it only hit 0.06% of my total mail volume across a 3 day period earlier this week, however this filter won't get run unless an E-mail gets past almost everything else with a score less than 28 on my system, which is about 85% on average.  I feel that this is working correctly, and it does score some things that are very hard to catch with other filters.  Sniffer also does a good job with this stuff, so between the two, I think I'm pretty well protected.

Attached is a copy of Kami's filter that was modified as described above.  I think this may improve your results.

Matt



Kevin Bilbee wrote:
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

  
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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


    
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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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