[Corpora-List] Phishing email corpus

[radev at umich.edu]

I don't know him. I have been collecting these myself after I read the
paper in Scientific American:

@article{bennett&al.03,
  author =      {Bennett, Charles H. and Li, Ming and Ma, Bin},
  title =       {{Chain Letters and Evolutionary Histories}},
  journal =     {{Scientific American}},
  month =       {June},
  year =        {2003},
  pages =       {76--81},
  url =   {http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=0003D476-1852-1EB7-BDC0809EC588EEDF},
}


j_kurjian at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >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=
> > > f=20
> > > "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=
> > > ed=20
> > > to make his massive collection available to me for a corpus.  Then it 
> >fel=
> > > l=20
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Hi
> > > >
> > > >My name is Nicklas Karlsson, and I'm a student at V=E4xj=F6 University 
> >i=
> > > n=20
> > > >Sweden.
> > > >I'm working on my bachelor's degree with a phishing detection and 
> >warnin=
> > > g=20
> > > >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=
> > > =20
> > > >collected a few but I still need more.
> > > >
> > > >So I wonder if anyone has or knows where I can find a corpus with 
> >phishi=
> > > ng=20
> > > >emails?
> > > >
> > > >I'll post a list of all replys sent directly to me.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >
> > > >Nicklas Karlsson
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >--
> >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
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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