Re: [Corpora-List] Phishing email corpus

From: radev@umich.edu
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 06:09:18 MET DST

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    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:
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    > 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=
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    > to make his massive collection available to me for a corpus. Then it fel=
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    > 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
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    > >
    > >Hi
    > >
    > >My name is Nicklas Karlsson, and I'm a student at V=E4xj=F6 University i=
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    > >Sweden.
    > >I'm working on my bachelor's degree with a phishing detection and warnin=
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    > >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=
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    > >collected a few but I still need more.
    > >
    > >So I wonder if anyone has or knows where I can find a corpus with phishi=
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    > >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
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    Computer Science, and Linguistics, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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