On Sunday 15 June 2008 12:03 pm, John Hardin wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I tried posting this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it bounced...
>
> I'm seeing recent 419 spams (e.g. the ATM Card variant) making it
> through SA lately. It hits BAYES_99, but no SARE rules.
>
> Are these rules defunct?
>
> Suggestion: grabbing Justin Mason's SOUGHT tools and using them against
> a 419-specific corpus might be a really good way to keep the fraud
> ruleset current without a lot of manual effort...

John, I assume you're talking about spam with a subject such as:

(RE:YOUR ATM-211 CARD UPDATE!!)

On my box here these rules are hit, though not ClamAv this time, most times it 
is.

Content analysis details:   (20.8 points, 5.0 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 1.9 TVD_RCVD_IP            TVD_RCVD_IP
 3.2 TVD_RCVD_IP4           TVD_RCVD_IP4
 1.0 RELAY_NG               Relayed through Nigeria
 2.1 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS          Subject is all capitals
 2.1 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO      Received: contains an IP address used for HELO
 1.3 MISSING_HEADERS        Missing To: header
 1.9 BILLION_DOLLARS        BODY: Talks about lots of money
 0.6 US_DOLLARS_3           BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
 1.0 BAYES_50               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60%
                            [score: 0.5103]
 1.5 MIME_HTML_ONLY         BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
-0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE     Not listed in DCC
                            [cpollock 1113; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1]
 1.7 SARE_FRAUD_X3          Matches 3+ phrases commonly used in fraud spam
 1.7 SARE_FRAUD_X4          Matches 4+ phrases commonly used in fraud spam
 1.0 SAGREY                 Adds 1.0 to spam from first-time senders

Notice SARE rules were in fact hit.

-- 
Chris
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