Nigerian Scam Update
Posted: February 24 2005 08:41 PM
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Well we put in a lot of code on the site to help combat the Nigerian Scammers in the past few weeks. Any opinions on our progress? We were getting several emails each day from people who had suspicious contacts and that has tapered off quite a bit in the past week. What are we doing? Here's a list of things we've implemented lately: - Added a warning to all email pertaining to car ad inquiries telling recipients what to look for in a scammer
- created flagged accounts, anytime an email address has been flagged it will go into the database and automatically contact every single person they have ever emailed telling them that they may be dealing with someone suspicious and to be careful
- those flagged accounts will never again have an email sent out through the system
- scam filtering, we've identified a bunch of traits common in most emails from scammers and set the system to filter those emails before they're sent
- notified the FBI of anyone who's been flagged
- a bunch more "top secret" stuff, hehe
I hope you all appreciate the work we've been doing and if you have any suggestions, please let us know!BigAl and Eriq
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