RobertH wrote:
looking hard?
of course i did.
You did say you didn't see Nigeria anywhere. I took this to mean
that you dodn't see it anywhere in the SA default rules, which
you would have done using a quick grep.
Now I don't know what you meant when you said you didn't see it
anywhere.
wasn't mentioned, wich it obviously was.
how many legitimate emails a day do you people get with the work Nigeria in
it?
I get one every now and then. Those usually have to do with spam,
but not allways.
Sometimes we get quite a few from TT (a swedish news agency). At
those times it's likely to also be mentioned in our own
specialized newspaper (made for deafblind people) as well as in
several newsletters people subscribe to.
We have had correspondance with non-profits in Nigeraia as well,
but I've no idea how common that is.
In contrast, I can't even remember the last time a 419-type mail
mentioning Nigeria slipped through our filter.
As an aside:
We once got a legitimate mail from a Nigerian NGO seeking
financial help for the work with disabled people. We're a swedish
NGO for deafblind people with a few projects in Africa, so it's
not a spammy thing for them to do. It got stuck in our quarantine
(wich is reviewed most workdays), so we actually received it.
I do feel sorry for them since it was most likely stopped almost
everywhere. Their mail mentioned money, transfers of money, the
government of Nigeria and banks and was sent form Nigeria.
yeah, that is what i thought. :-)
It was?
when i get an nigerian email scam email that hits squat, well you get the
idea.
Yeah. You get mail that I don't.
I don't get Nigerian scam email myself, and our users don't
report any to me. We reject and quarantine at 9 points, and
reject without quarantine at 18 points. So Nigerian scams get at
least 9 points here.
So most nigerian mail are either stopped by our greylist or get
18 points or more, and virtually none get lower than 9 points here.
Regards
/Jonas
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Jonas Eckerman, FSDB & Fruktträdet
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