Bug 1826 - nigerian spam scoring 0.7
Summary: nigerian spam scoring 0.7
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: spamassassin (show other bugs)
Version: 2.52
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: 2.60
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-04-26 06:22 UTC by Martin Radford
Modified: 2003-04-27 21:35 UTC (History)
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Attachment Type Modified Status Actions Submitter/CLA Status
Low scoring Nigerian spam text/plain None Martin Radford [HasCLA]
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Description Martin Radford 2003-04-26 06:22:52 UTC 
The attached message scored 0.7 with SA 2.52.  I don't have a 2.53 to test 
against, but I don't think the rules changed between 2.52 and 2.53.

I've obfuscated DNS names/IPs in the Received headers that relate to my 
employer's mail servers.
Comment 1 Martin Radford 2003-04-26 06:27:18 UTC 
Created attachment 921 [details]
Low scoring Nigerian spam
Comment 2 Daniel Quinlan 2003-04-28 05:35:27 UTC 
Thanks.  We have some improved nigerian rules in CVS for testing now.

Beyond that, we realize we need some kind of generalized solution for these
spam since they mutate so rapidly (probably because every crook in Africa
is sending their own hand-written version).  We have a lot of examples of
such spam.