Re: SARE fraud ruleset rotted?

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John D. Hardin wrote:
> SARE ninjas lurking about:
>
> I tried to send the following to Matt Yackley via
> fraud@rulesemporium.com, but that address bounced. Is Matt (or anyone
> else) still maintaining the SARE fraud rulesets?
>
> Matt:
>
> I'm getting a lot of 419 spams that aren't hitting fraud rules in
> 99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf at all. I note that the ruleset has
> apparently not been touched since 2004 - is it abandoned and no longer
> relevant for 3.1.x?
>
> Thanks!
>
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John,

I'm pretty much the maintainer of all the old rules for SARE.

I think most of the 419 rules should be pretty much now in SA 3.2.x they are called ADVANCED_FEE* and something like NIGERIAN_419* or something like that.

I'll see if I can ping Matt on our SARE list.

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