Re: [Corpora-List] Phishing email corpus

From: j_kurjian@hotmail.com
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 06:26:26 MET DST

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    Well, Lawrence Kestenbaum is in Michigan somewhere so you might have more
    luck than I did. He has a quite a few on his site, but he claims to have 15
    or 20 thousand on his hard drive!
    J

    >
    >I have a larger collection of "Nigerian" Letters, more than 2,500 of
    >them, collected since 1998. If anyone is interested, drop me a note.
    >
    >D.
    >
    >j_kurjian@hotmail.com wrote:
    > >
    > > Nicklas -
    > > I don't know if this is what you're looking for but I have a collection
    >o=
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    > > "Nigerian Letters," about 100 of them. They are not tagged. If you
    >are=20
    > > handy with a spider or offline browser, you might be able to get some
    >fro=
    > > m:
    > > http://potifos.com/fraud/
    > > Last year I contacted it's owner, Lawrence Kestenbaum, and he almost
    >agre=
    > > ed=20
    > > to make his massive collection available to me for a corpus. Then it
    >fel=
    > > l=20
    > > through. His site has lotto letters and probably other types too.
    >Hope=20
    > > that helps. Let me know if you want what I have.
    > > Jerry Kurjian
    > >
    > >
    > > >
    > > >Hi
    > > >
    > > >My name is Nicklas Karlsson, and I'm a student at V=E4xj=F6 University
    >i=
    > > n=20
    > > >Sweden.
    > > >I'm working on my bachelor's degree with a phishing detection and
    >warnin=
    > > g=20
    > > >project.
    > > >The part I'm working on is a classification module, which will
    >classify=20
    > > >emails to find the phishing emails and mark them for further
    >investigati=
    > > on.
    > > >To develop this and test it I need a collection of phishing emails.
    >I've=
    > > =20
    > > >collected a few but I still need more.
    > > >
    > > >So I wonder if anyone has or knows where I can find a corpus with
    >phishi=
    > > ng=20
    > > >emails?
    > > >
    > > >I'll post a list of all replys sent directly to me.
    > > >
    > > >Thanks
    > > >
    > > >Nicklas Karlsson
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
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    >
    >--
    >Dragomir R. Radev radev@umich.edu
    >Associate Professor of Information, Electrical Engineering and
    >Computer Science, and Linguistics, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    >Phone: 734-615-5225 Fax: 734-764-2475 http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev



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