On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Daniel McDonald wrote:

Lately, I?ve been seeing spammers trying to convince you to click on a site
to make hundreds or tens of Dollars, like:

http://pastebin.com/MfG74WGW

The mail client probably stripped out the more interesting headers before I
got it from my customer, because it originally hit RELAY_RU, and I don?t see
a matching header in the current revision.

But, I was wondering if anyone had a good regex for finding these micro-sum
spams?  Now that LOTS_OF_MONEY has been promoted and is doing a great job of
finding the 419-style scammers, they have changed tactics on us again...

Catching the simple variants of that is pretty straightforward:

body  __SOME_MONEY   /\$?(?:\d+,)?\d{3}\b/

...then use that in metas (untested).

The complexity comes in from all the various obfuscations. I could work up something similar to LOTS_OF_MONEY for amounts less than $100k.

Another problem is smaller amounts of money are much more FP-prone.

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