[Corpora-List] Phishing email corpus

[j_kurjian at hotmail.com]

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



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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.
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>j_kurjian at 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 
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> > "Nigerian Letters," about 100 of them.  They are not tagged.  If you 
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> > handy with a spider or offline browser, you might be able to get some 
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> > http://potifos.com/fraud/
> > Last year I contacted it's owner, Lawrence Kestenbaum, and he almost 
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> > to make his massive collection available to me for a corpus.  Then it 
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> > through.  His site has lotto letters and probably other types too.  
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> > that helps.  Let me know if you want what I have.
> > Jerry Kurjian
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> > >Hi
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> > >My name is Nicklas Karlsson, and I'm a student at V=E4xj=F6 University 
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> > >Sweden.
> > >I'm working on my bachelor's degree with a phishing detection and 
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> > >project.
> > >The part I'm working on is a classification module, which will 
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> > >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. 
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> > >collected a few but I still need more.
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> > >So I wonder if anyone has or knows where I can find a corpus with 
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> > >emails?
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> > >I'll post a list of all replys sent directly to me.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Nicklas Karlsson
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>Dragomir R. Radev                                         radev at 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