[Corpora-List] Phishing email corpus

[radev at umich.edu]

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 at 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=
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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 at umich.edu
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