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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu> on 2024/06/24 21:18:11 UTC
ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text through
ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of this email
, is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this group. Has there
been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI? Thanks. - Mark
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*From: *Jeff Rothschild <hello@email.bing.com <ma...@email.bing.com>>
*Subject: **From a dreamer!*
*Date: *June 22, 2024 at 18:50:03 EDT
*To: *YOU <hello@email.bing.com <ma...@email.bing.com>>
*Reply-To: *orangebluemoon@naver.com <ma...@naver.com>
Dear Friend,
I hope this letter finds you well, surrounded by the warmth of loved
ones and the promise of a new day. My name is Jeff Rothschild, and I am
writing to you today with a heart full of excitement and a vision for a
different kind of philanthropy.
Below is a profile of me:
www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-rothschild/?sh=457d14d2c87a
<http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-rothschild/?sh=457d14d2c87a>
For many years, I have dedicated myself to supporting various charities
and causes that are dear to my heart. While I am proud of the impact we
have made together, I have come to realize that there is more to giving
than simply writing a check.
Recently, I had a dream—a vivid, inspiring dream that left me with a
sense of clarity and purpose. In that dream, I saw the faces of ordinary
people like you and me, each with their own hopes, dreams, and
struggles. And in that moment, I knew that I needed to be more personal
with my giving, to touch lives in a way that has never been done before.
That is why I am reaching out to you today, not as a distant benefactor,
but as a fellow traveler on this journey we call life. I want to invite
you to be a part of something truly special, something that goes beyond
traditional philanthropy and connects us on a deeper, more personal level.
Consider this letter your golden ticket to a brighter future. You've
been selected as the recipient of a generous donation from me., This is
my appreciation for your presence in this world. But this gift is more
than just a material offering; it is an invitation to join me in a
shared mission of compassion, empathy, and human connection.
Together, we can make a difference in the lives of ordinary people in
ways that are both meaningful and profound. Whether it's lending a
listening ear to a friend in need, offering a helping hand to a neighbor
facing adversity, or simply sharing a smile with a stranger, every act
of kindness has the power to create ripple effects of love and positivity.
So please, accept this gift with an open heart and know that it comes
with no expectations or obligations. Consider it a gesture of
friendship, a symbol of our shared humanity, and a catalyst for the
extraordinary things we can achieve when we come together with purpose
and passion.
Kindly provide your full name and address, and I will guide you on how
to receive this donation..
Thank you for being a part of this journey with me. May our shared
vision of a kinder, more compassionate world inspire us to take bold
action and spread love wherever we go.
With warmest regards,
Jeff Rothschild
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The email you received raises several red flags that suggest it might be
spam or a phishing attempt. Here are key indicators:
1.
*Unexpected Generosity*: Receiving an unsolicited offer of money
from a stranger, especially someone claiming to be a well-known
philanthropist, is highly unusual and a common tactic in scams.
2.
*Emotional Appeal*: The email uses a highly emotional and
inspirational tone, which is often employed to lower the recipient's
guard and elicit a positive response.
3.
*Request for Personal Information*: The email asks for your full
name and address, which can be used for identity theft or other
malicious purposes.
4.
*Generic Greeting*: The email addresses you as "Dear Friend" rather
than using your name, indicating it could be sent to a large number
of recipients.
5.
*Vague and Grandiose Claims*: The email makes grand claims about
personal philanthropy without providing specific details or a clear
rationale for why you were chosen.
6.
*Suspicious Link*: While the email includes a link to a legitimate
profile on Forbes, this could be a tactic to add credibility to the
scam. Scammers often use real profiles to appear legitimate, but
this doesn't verify the authenticity of the email.
7.
*No Verification Method*: There's no way to independently verify the
sender’s identity or the legitimacy of the offer within the email itself
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by ja...@mxroute.com.
I'm very interested in the concept. I imagine you'd need to have a
locally running LLM rather than using an API, both for concerns of
privacy and performance. Even if not SpamAssassin, I'd love to find
anyone's open source implementation of AI for spam filtering.
On 2024-06-24 16:18, Mark London wrote:
> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
> Thanks. - Mark
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Jeff Rothschild <he...@email.bing.com>
>
> Subject: From a dreamer!
>
> Date: June 22, 2024 at 18:50:03 EDT
>
> To: YOU <he...@email.bing.com>
> Reply-To: orangebluemoon@naver.com
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> I hope this letter finds you well, surrounded by the warmth of loved
> ones and the promise of a new day. My name is Jeff Rothschild, and I
> am writing to you today with a heart full of excitement and a vision
> for a different kind of philanthropy.
>
> Below is a profile of me:
> www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-rothschild/?sh=457d14d2c87a [1]
>
> For many years, I have dedicated myself to supporting various
> charities and causes that are dear to my heart. While I am proud of
> the impact we have made together, I have come to realize that there is
> more to giving than simply writing a check.
>
> Recently, I had a dream—a vivid, inspiring dream that left me with a
> sense of clarity and purpose. In that dream, I saw the faces of
> ordinary people like you and me, each with their own hopes, dreams,
> and struggles. And in that moment, I knew that I needed to be more
> personal with my giving, to touch lives in a way that has never been
> done before.
>
> That is why I am reaching out to you today, not as a distant
> benefactor, but as a fellow traveler on this journey we call life. I
> want to invite you to be a part of something truly special, something
> that goes beyond traditional philanthropy and connects us on a deeper,
> more personal level.
>
> Consider this letter your golden ticket to a brighter future. You've
> been selected as the recipient of a generous donation from me., This
> is my appreciation for your presence in this world. But this gift is
> more than just a material offering; it is an invitation to join me in
> a shared mission of compassion, empathy, and human connection.
>
> Together, we can make a difference in the lives of ordinary people in
> ways that are both meaningful and profound. Whether it's lending a
> listening ear to a friend in need, offering a helping hand to a
> neighbor facing adversity, or simply sharing a smile with a stranger,
> every act of kindness has the power to create ripple effects of love
> and positivity.
>
> So please, accept this gift with an open heart and know that it comes
> with no expectations or obligations. Consider it a gesture of
> friendship, a symbol of our shared humanity, and a catalyst for the
> extraordinary things we can achieve when we come together with purpose
> and passion.
>
> Kindly provide your full name and address, and I will guide you on how
> to receive this donation..
>
> Thank you for being a part of this journey with me. May our shared
> vision of a kinder, more compassionate world inspire us to take bold
> action and spread love wherever we go.
>
> With warmest regards,
>
> Jeff Rothschild
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The email you received raises several red flags that suggest it might
> be spam or a phishing attempt. Here are key indicators:
>
> *
>
> Unexpected Generosity: Receiving an unsolicited offer of money from a
> stranger, especially someone claiming to be a well-known
> philanthropist, is highly unusual and a common tactic in scams.
> *
>
> Emotional Appeal: The email uses a highly emotional and inspirational
> tone, which is often employed to lower the recipient's guard and
> elicit a positive response.
> *
>
> Request for Personal Information: The email asks for your full name
> and address, which can be used for identity theft or other malicious
> purposes.
> *
>
> Generic Greeting: The email addresses you as "Dear Friend" rather than
> using your name, indicating it could be sent to a large number of
> recipients.
> *
>
> Vague and Grandiose Claims: The email makes grand claims about
> personal philanthropy without providing specific details or a clear
> rationale for why you were chosen.
> *
>
> Suspicious Link: While the email includes a link to a legitimate
> profile on Forbes, this could be a tactic to add credibility to the
> scam. Scammers often use real profiles to appear legitimate, but this
> doesn't verify the authenticity of the email.
> *
>
> No Verification Method: There's no way to independently verify the
> sender’s identity or the legitimacy of the offer within the email
> itself
>
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-rothschild/?sh=457d14d2c87a
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Marcin Mirosław <ma...@mejor.pl>.
W dniu 2024-06-25 15:55, John Hardin napisał(a):
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Mark London wrote:
>
>> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
>> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
>> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
>> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
>> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
>> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
>> Thanks. - Mark
>
> In a very limited manner. There is code in the repo that allows you to
> set up ham and spam corpora and scan the spam corpora to pick out
> common phrases and filter them via the ham corpora, then create
> rules.based on the phrases and (IIRC) combinations of them.
>
> This was being used to generate dynamic fraud rulesets (the "sought"
> rules, still somewhat there as ADVANCE_FEE rules which I occasionally
> manually update) until Justin Mason left the project. It's been
> languishing since as he was providing the resources (infra and
> maintenance) to run it for those rules. I was feeding those corpora for
> a long time.
>
> Take a look in the repo at the stuff under:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/rule-dev/
>
>
> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/evolve_metarule/
>
> I don't know whether the project would be willing to set up infra to
> revive dynamic advance fee fraud (or more general) rule generation, but
> it's possible if someone was willing to bring that code up-to-date and
> figure out what was needed and corpora providers were available.
This code still works, at least for me. I'm using my own corpora.
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Mark London wrote:
> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something that
> was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text through ChatGPT,
> and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of this email , is it's
> analysis. I've not been fully reading this group. Has there been any work
> to allow Spamassassin to use AI? Thanks. - Mark
In a very limited manner. There is code in the repo that allows you to set
up ham and spam corpora and scan the spam corpora to pick out common
phrases and filter them via the ham corpora, then create rules.based on
the phrases and (IIRC) combinations of them.
This was being used to generate dynamic fraud rulesets (the "sought"
rules, still somewhat there as ADVANCE_FEE rules which I occasionally
manually update) until Justin Mason left the project. It's been
languishing since as he was providing the resources (infra and
maintenance) to run it for those rules. I was feeding those corpora for a
long time.
Take a look in the repo at the stuff under:
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/rule-dev/
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/evolve_metarule/
I don't know whether the project would be willing to set up infra to
revive dynamic advance fee fraud (or more general) rule generation, but
it's possible if someone was willing to bring that code up-to-date and
figure out what was needed and corpora providers were available.
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Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Bill Cole <sa...@billmail.scconsult.com>.
On 2024-06-25 at 17:38:28 UTC-0400 (Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:38:28 -0400)
Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
is rumored to have said:
> Bill - Thanks for the response. As an aside, it would be nice
> (though impossible?) for a spam filter to be more suspicious of emails
> coming from a new email address, that is not in my Sent folder or my
> Inbox. FWIW. - Mark
Matija's mention of AWL/TxRep is correct here. While some people find it
a nuisance when it makes one FP into an ongoing series, I think it is
worth enabling for most sites.
However, if you do enable either of those tools, you should have a
mechanism for feeding FPs into both a sitewide Bayes DB and into the
AWL/TxRep DB by using the blocklist/welcomelist options of the
spamassassin script.
> On 6/25/2024 11:21 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
>> Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
>> is rumored to have said:
>>
>>> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
>>> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like
>>> something that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put
>>> the text through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the
>>> bottom of this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully
>>> reading this group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin
>>> to use AI?
>>
>> "Artificial intelligence" does not exist. It is a misnomer.
>>
>> Large language models like ChatGPT have a provenance problem. There's
>> no way to know why exactly the model "says" anything. In a single
>> paragraph, ChatGPT is capable of making completely and directly
>> inconsistent assertions. The only way to explain that is that despite
>> appearances, a request to answer the ham/spasm question generates
>> text with no semantic connection to the original, but which seems
>> like an explanation.
>>
>> SpamAssassin's code and rules all come from ASF committers, and the
>> scores are determined by examining the scan results from contributors
>> and optimizing them to a threshold of 5.0. Every scan of a message
>> results in a list of hits against documented rules. The results can
>> be analyzed and understood.
>>
>> We know that ChatGPT and other LLMs that are publicly available have
>> been trained on data to which they had no license. There is no way to
>> remove any particular ingested data. There's no way to know where any
>> particular LLM will have problems and no way to fix those problems.
>> This all puts them outside of the boundaries we have as an ASF
>> project. However, we do have a plugin architecture, so it is possible
>> for 3rd parties to create a plugin for LLM integration.
>>
>>
--
Bill Cole
bill@scconsult.com or billcole@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
Not Currently Available For Hire
Sv: Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Anders Gustafsson <An...@pedago.fi>.
That is the way some email clients, say GroupWise does it. There is an option to put all mail from new
receivers in the junk folder for perusal. OTOH should simple graylisting do the same thing. But yes, an option
to deduct points from previously unseen senders would be useful.
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>>> Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu> 2024-06-26 00:38 >>>
Bill - Thanks for the response. As an aside, it would be nice (though
impossible?) for a spam filter to be more suspicious of emails coming
from a new email address, that is not in my Sent folder or my Inbox.
FWIW. - Mark
On 6/25/2024 11:21 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
> Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
>> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
>> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
>> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
>> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
>> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
>
> "Artificial intelligence" does not exist. It is a misnomer.
>
> Large language models like ChatGPT have a provenance problem. There's
> no way to know why exactly the model "says" anything. In a single
> paragraph, ChatGPT is capable of making completely and directly
> inconsistent assertions. The only way to explain that is that despite
> appearances, a request to answer the ham/spasm question generates text
> with no semantic connection to the original, but which seems like an
> explanation.
>
> SpamAssassin's code and rules all come from ASF committers, and the
> scores are determined by examining the scan results from contributors
> and optimizing them to a threshold of 5.0. Every scan of a message
> results in a list of hits against documented rules. The results can be
> analyzed and understood.
>
> We know that ChatGPT and other LLMs that are publicly available have
> been trained on data to which they had no license. There is no way to
> remove any particular ingested data. There's no way to know where any
> particular LLM will have problems and no way to fix those problems.
> This all puts them outside of the boundaries we have as an ASF
> project. However, we do have a plugin architecture, so it is possible
> for 3rd parties to create a plugin for LLM integration.
>
>
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Matija Nalis <mn...@voyager.hr>.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 05:38:28PM -0400, Mark London wrote:
> Bill - Thanks for the response. As an aside, it would be nice (though
> impossible?) for a spam filter to be more suspicious of emails coming from a
> new email address, that is not in my Sent folder or my Inbox. FWIW. - Mark
Something similar is accomplished by TxRep (or to a lesser degree AWL)
Spamassassin plugin.
Ideally you should use it with mailbox learning (spam/ham training),
see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/TxRep
--
Opinions above are GNU-copylefted.
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>.
Bill - Thanks for the response. As an aside, it would be nice (though
impossible?) for a spam filter to be more suspicious of emails coming
from a new email address, that is not in my Sent folder or my Inbox.
FWIW. - Mark
On 6/25/2024 11:21 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
> Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
>> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
>> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
>> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
>> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
>> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
>
> "Artificial intelligence" does not exist. It is a misnomer.
>
> Large language models like ChatGPT have a provenance problem. There's
> no way to know why exactly the model "says" anything. In a single
> paragraph, ChatGPT is capable of making completely and directly
> inconsistent assertions. The only way to explain that is that despite
> appearances, a request to answer the ham/spasm question generates text
> with no semantic connection to the original, but which seems like an
> explanation.
>
> SpamAssassin's code and rules all come from ASF committers, and the
> scores are determined by examining the scan results from contributors
> and optimizing them to a threshold of 5.0. Every scan of a message
> results in a list of hits against documented rules. The results can be
> analyzed and understood.
>
> We know that ChatGPT and other LLMs that are publicly available have
> been trained on data to which they had no license. There is no way to
> remove any particular ingested data. There's no way to know where any
> particular LLM will have problems and no way to fix those problems.
> This all puts them outside of the boundaries we have as an ASF
> project. However, we do have a plugin architecture, so it is possible
> for 3rd parties to create a plugin for LLM integration.
>
>
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :) -- move along, this is not the reply you are looking for.
Posted by Grant Taylor via users <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>.
On 6/25/24 12:21 PM, Adam Bowen wrote:
> I asked a well known chatbot: What would Bill Cole say if he was asked
> about integrating AI in to spamassassin?
LOL
I needed that laugh.
Thank you Adam.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Adam Bowen <ad...@agitate.org.uk>.
On 25/06/2024 16:21, Bill Cole wrote:
> On 2024-06-24 at 17:18:11 UTC-0400 (Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:18:11 -0400)
> Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
>> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
>> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
>> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
>> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
>> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
>
> "Artificial intelligence" does not exist. It is a misnomer.
>
> Large language models like ChatGPT have a provenance problem. There's
> no way to know why exactly the model "says" anything. In a single
> paragraph, ChatGPT is capable of making completely and directly
> inconsistent assertions. The only way to explain that is that despite
> appearances, a request to answer the ham/spasm question generates text
> with no semantic connection to the original, but which seems like an
> explanation.
>
> SpamAssassin's code and rules all come from ASF committers, and the
> scores are determined by examining the scan results from contributors
> and optimizing them to a threshold of 5.0. Every scan of a message
> results in a list of hits against documented rules. The results can be
> analyzed and understood.
>
> We know that ChatGPT and other LLMs that are publicly available have
> been trained on data to which they had no license. There is no way to
> remove any particular ingested data. There's no way to know where any
> particular LLM will have problems and no way to fix those problems.
> This all puts them outside of the boundaries we have as an ASF
> project. However, we do have a plugin architecture, so it is possible
> for 3rd parties to create a plugin for LLM integration.
I asked a well known chatbot: What would Bill Cole say if he was asked
about integrating AI in to spamassassin?
> Bill Cole, the maintainer of SpamAssassin, is likely to be
> enthusiastic about the potential of AI to improve spam detection.
>
> Here's what he might say:
>
> * Improved Spam Filtering: AI could be used to analyze spam emails
> with greater accuracy than traditional rule-based methods.
> SpamAssassin currently relies on matching email content to predefined
> rules, but AI could identify spam based on subtler cues like phrasing,
> sender behavior, and content structure.
>
> * Adapting to Evolving Threats: Spammers constantly develop new
> tactics to bypass filters. AI can learn and adapt to these evolving
> threats much faster than manually updating rules.
>
> * Mitigating False Positives: AI could help reduce the number of
> legitimate emails mistakenly flagged as spam (false positives). This
> is a major concern for SpamAssassin users.
>
> However, Bill Cole might also mention some challenges:
>
> * Training Data Bias: The effectiveness of AI depends on the quality
> and balance of training data. Biases in the training data could lead
> to the AI disproportionately flagging certain types of emails as spam.
> * Transparency and Explainability: It can be difficult to understand
> how AI systems arrive at their decisions. This lack of transparency
> could make it hard to debug errors or identify potential biases.
> * Computational Cost: Training and running AI models can require
> significant computational resources, which might not be feasible for
> all SpamAssassin users.
>
> Overall, Bill Cole would likely be cautiously optimistic about the
> potential of AI to improve SpamAssassin. He would acknowledge the
> potential benefits but also highlight the challenges that need to be
> addressed.
>
:)
Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)
Posted by Bill Cole <sa...@billmail.scconsult.com>.
On 2024-06-24 at 17:18:11 UTC-0400 (Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:18:11 -0400)
Mark London <mr...@psfc.mit.edu>
is rumored to have said:
> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by
> Spamassasin (at least mine). The text actually looks like something
> that was generated using ChatGPT. In any event, I put the text
> through ChatGPT, and asked if it looked like spam. At the bottom of
> this email , is it's analysis. I've not been fully reading this
> group. Has there been any work to allow Spamassassin to use AI?
"Artificial intelligence" does not exist. It is a misnomer.
Large language models like ChatGPT have a provenance problem. There's no
way to know why exactly the model "says" anything. In a single
paragraph, ChatGPT is capable of making completely and directly
inconsistent assertions. The only way to explain that is that despite
appearances, a request to answer the ham/spasm question generates text
with no semantic connection to the original, but which seems like an
explanation.
SpamAssassin's code and rules all come from ASF committers, and the
scores are determined by examining the scan results from contributors
and optimizing them to a threshold of 5.0. Every scan of a message
results in a list of hits against documented rules. The results can be
analyzed and understood.
We know that ChatGPT and other LLMs that are publicly available have
been trained on data to which they had no license. There is no way to
remove any particular ingested data. There's no way to know where any
particular LLM will have problems and no way to fix those problems. This
all puts them outside of the boundaries we have as an ASF project.
However, we do have a plugin architecture, so it is possible for 3rd
parties to create a plugin for LLM integration.
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