Phishing fraud question

[Martin Hepworth]

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Julian

Fair enough.... I guess if the rule maintainer sees enough requests for
chnage he might start doing it another way.

Might be worthwhile contacting him anyway....just a suggestion.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Julian Field wrote:
> At 10:27 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Julian
>>
>>
>> looked at the ones that triggered rules etc and they hit rules in
>> 70_sare_spoof.cf from www.rulesemporium.com
>>
>> It might be useful to contact the maintainer of this ruleset so he can
>> add in the non-US based phishing emails (like Abbey, Barclays etc) to
>> this list.
>
>
> We see them change frequently, which is why I wrote it to start with. Also,
> just flagging the mail as spam isn't really enough. If the email looks
> genuine, people will just tend to think that the spam detector is being
> over-zealous and treating a bank's bulk mail as spam. That's why I want to
> add more than just a spam tag.
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