moderate dataset of internet scam messages available... (this is not an internet scam!)
Dr. Gerber has a moderate collection of Internet scam messages, and wanted to know if anyone might be interested in having them for analysis, etc. Otherwise, he's getting ready to delete this file. Please send replies of interest to Dr. Mike Gerber, Professor of Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCalifornia Santa Barbara, 93106, CA, mgerber@education.ucsb.edu; http://education.ucsb.edu/people/gerber.html What I've been collecting are emails delivered to my normal university account since July 10, 2002 (the last was July 28, 2005). I believe there are 127 separate emails. There are occasional duplications of nominal sender and message, sometimes duplications of message with different nominal senders. Most claim to be from Africans, some claim to be from Europeans, and occasionally some claim to be from someone in North America. All are confidence schemes related to large amounts of money that have come into the possession of the sender. Some relate either to lottery winnings received by the sender or to claims that the recipient has won a lottery. I quote one exactly below as an example. So, that's it. If you know someone who wants them, I'm happy to send them on even though I imagine anyone using email has probably seen dozens of these. I imagine some scholar out there thinks they are interesting too. Best wishes, Mike Gerber GGSE ===================== Here's a verbatim quote from a sample taken at random that seems modal to me. "From;Mr.William Tambo Calabar Nigeria Alternative Eami::(williamtambo2@fastermail.com) Dear My name is MR.William Tambo.I am the Chief finacial to Mr.Charles Taylor,the ex-president of libera who is presestiy on exile in Nigeria.We are here in Nigeria together.As his private financil controller,I have access to his finacial records more then any of his family members Mr Charles Taylor has over $10 billion dollares outside his hom country libera and his family members or people around him are not aware of this with his present notion of arrest and following his resyticted movement and the recent prociamation by Zurich authority, the U.N war crimes courtand the America Government,have agreed that all Bank account belonging to Charles Taylor should be reported/frozen There fore I want to use this opportunity to make good money for myseif.I have worked for him for over 15years and Ihave nothing show for it. I am only leaving on his fake promises and hope presently, I have complete information to authorize with document for collecting/receivvng $250milliom from one of his financial sources in South Africa. And I need i your assistance in receiving the fund in Europe on my brhalf. Charles T aylor has prepared himself legally and secretly arranged with Top most Government agents to transfer the fund as at when instructed. In light of the above,if I get a positive response from you, then I WILL immediately forward you the complete information that enable us claim the fund as the receiver authorized by Charles Taylor Have a nice day. Regards Mr.William Tambo. Alternative Email:(williamtambo2@fastermail.com)" ================================================================
Hello, Ron, I have been also collecting scam/spam emails myself since 2001 (right know my dataset is about 17100 items). Included attachments (possibly malicious) have been also collected. Since my research interests are in social network analysis, I was thinking to make a social network and genres analysis over this set. In the meantime I have been working with other things and I haven't found the time yet. But I'm still interested in collaborating on this project with anyone else who would like to do this (especially if someone wants to test a content-analyzer software - incidentally Don Holeman from Syracuse has written me off-line about such an instrument he's developing). So, I'm available for any such collaboration. Best regards, --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ronald E. Rice wrote:
Dr. Gerber has a moderate collection of Internet scam messages, and wanted to know if anyone might be interested in having them for analysis, etc. Otherwise, he's getting ready to delete this file. Please send replies of interest to Dr. Mike Gerber, Professor of Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCalifornia Santa Barbara, 93106, CA, mgerber@education.ucsb.edu; http://education.ucsb.edu/people/gerber.html
What I've been collecting are emails delivered to my normal university account since July 10, 2002 (the last was July 28, 2005). I believe there are 127 separate emails. There are occasional duplications of nominal sender and message, sometimes duplications of message with different nominal senders. Most claim to be from Africans, some claim to be from Europeans, and occasionally some claim to be from someone in North America. All are confidence schemes related to large amounts of money that have come into the possession of the sender. Some relate either to lottery winnings received by the sender or to claims that the recipient has won a lottery.
I quote one exactly below as an example.
So, that's it. If you know someone who wants them, I'm happy to send them on even though I imagine anyone using email has probably seen dozens of these. I imagine some scholar out there thinks they are interesting too.
Best wishes,
Mike Gerber GGSE ===================== Here's a verbatim quote from a sample taken at random that seems modal to me.
"From;Mr.William Tambo Calabar Nigeria Alternative Eami::(williamtambo2@fastermail.com)
Dear
My name is MR.William Tambo.I am the Chief finacial to Mr.Charles Taylor,the ex-president of libera who is presestiy on exile in Nigeria.We are here in Nigeria together.As his private financil controller,I have access to his finacial records more then any of his family members
Mr Charles Taylor has over $10 billion dollares outside his hom country libera and his family members or people around him are not aware of this with his present notion of arrest and following his resyticted movement and the recent prociamation by Zurich authority,
the U.N war crimes courtand the America Government,have agreed that all Bank account belonging to Charles Taylor should be reported/frozen There fore I want to use this opportunity to make good money for myseif.I have worked for him for over 15years and Ihave nothing show for it.
I am only leaving on his fake promises and hope presently, I have complete information to authorize with document for collecting/receivvng $250milliom from one of his financial sources in South Africa. And I need i your assistance in receiving the fund in Europe on my brhalf.
Charles T aylor has prepared himself legally and secretly arranged with Top most Government agents to transfer the fund as at when instructed.
In light of the above,if I get a positive response from you, then I WILL immediately forward you the complete information that enable us claim the fund as the receiver authorized by Charles Taylor
Have a nice day.
Regards Mr.William Tambo. Alternative Email:(williamtambo2@fastermail.com)" ================================================================
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