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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Matt Kettler <mk...@verizon.net> on 2007/04/26 07:37:39 UTC

Re: no score on 419

Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
>
> Curious to know why this scored ( well didn't score) this way;
>
> 0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_1          Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
>   

>From STATISTICS-set3.txt (in the SA tarball)

OVERALL%   SPAM%     HAM%     S/O    RANK   SCORE  NAME
 2.302   3.0207   0.6253    0.828   0.29    0.00  ADVANCE_FEE_1


That S/O means that 17.2% of messages that matched the rule were nonspam.

ie: this rule has a LOT of false positives.