https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:26:18 +0000 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:48:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.04 360 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=6523 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12278&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12278 Author: Alan
Subject: 6523
Posted: 23 July 2008 at 1:48pm

Mike, the bulk of these are sent via webmail (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) so the IP's of the senders will be the valid IP's of those webmail hosts.  That is one more reason why these are harder to filter.  They don't carry harmful payloads or such, but are an annoyance that they get by SF.]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:48:22 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12278&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12278 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12276&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12276 Author: mbrusl
Subject: 6523
Posted: 22 July 2008 at 7:59pm

Alan,

The only other thing I can suggest is to verify the IPs of the senders and throw a complaint email back at them.  Recently Google had done that to me and I sent a letter to them explaining the situation after receiving several hundred spam mails in a one day period.  Of course this was after showing them the proof of logs.  Needless to say, they were not to happy about being bitch slapped (geeting caught).
]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:59:01 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12276&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12276 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12275&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12275 Author: Alan
Subject: 6523
Posted: 22 July 2008 at 5:09pm

mbrusl wrote: Alan wrote: Unfortunately since 99% of these are sent via webmail (yahoo, hotmail, etc), the country filter would have little effect. dcook wrote: How about a country filter? Alan, You may want to try looking at this emails and coming up with keywords or phrases that can be caught.  Then if normal email is caught in it as well, you can always release the good one's that did get caught, from the quarantine.

Thanks Mike.  The bulk of this type of spam use a full range of everyday verbiage, such that using simple text filters would create a management headache.  Many SF users that have been using it for a while don't really use a lot of basic text filters anymore for that reason.  What I was hoping for was more of other ways that users have been able to deal with this type of spam in a creative fashion, outside of the basic filters.
]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:09:28 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12275&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12275 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12274&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12274 Author: mbrusl
Subject: 6523
Posted: 22 July 2008 at 3:47pm

Alan wrote: Unfortunately since 99% of these are sent via webmail (yahoo, hotmail, etc), the country filter would have little effect. dcook wrote: How about a country filter?

Alan,

You may want to try looking at this emails and coming up with keywords or phrases that can be caught.  Then if normal email is caught in it as well, you can always release the good one's that did get caught, from the quarantine.


]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:45 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12274&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12274 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12271&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12271 Author: Alan
Subject: 6523
Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:08pm

Unfortunately since 99% of these are sent via webmail (yahoo, hotmail, etc), the country filter would have little effect.

dcook wrote: How about a country filter?

]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:08:47 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12271&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12271 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12262&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12262 Author: dcook
Subject: 6523
Posted: 18 July 2008 at 1:09pm

How about a country filter?]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12262&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12262 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12258&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12258 Author: Alan
Subject: 6523
Posted: 17 July 2008 at 8:05pm

Been using SF since version 1.1 and it works very well.  Of the certain spam types that still seem to get through, the typical Nigerian scam email seem to account for a lot of them.  What do others here do to help them filter this sort of spam.  There is just too much variety and not much common ground that I can find to filter them.]]> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:05:49 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6523&PID=12258&title=advice-on-how-to-filter-nigerian-scam-type-emails#12258