Home of 1,000 phishes

Today the purportal.com Scammy Spam library received its 1,000th specimen. Each scam or phishing message that arrives at one of the collection addresses is rendered into harmless text form and stored in a database. The spam page displays these, newest first, and offers a simple search box too.

In honor of this milestone I wrote a quick script to count word frequencies. Here are the top 200 (the hundred most common English words were omitted from the count):

account email our please ebay me paypal information bank any address through contact security am money funds us million international prize winning because lottery online claim fund also access numbers dear help after good thank name work sum charity program receive lord message reply decided item member mr claims want here sent winners release click total category only agent america 2006 inform due congratulations batch link years next united dollars below assistance five department policy reference family service following update hundred banking note must lucky system thousand protect company cash soon last transaction should know addresses until sincerely award wish process once ticket payment over late business file details using computer husband avoid possible notification remember names log internet customer need won states result transfer relatives winner members cancer provide user notice limited best dont therefore respond never privacy immediately 2 regards order personal choose yours mrs lotto hope donate c world mail rights processing send full agreement lawyer reserved foreign death country fax verification upon keep ask selected promotion believe kin inc cole new credit before take matter being date always mrsstella manager 2007 ref id ensure under well response verify card private registered days confidential services password trademarks

It's a phisher's magnetic poetry kit! Or a party game where you try to compose your own scammy message using only these 200 words. "Dear Mrs. Transaction: Please email me. Our funds here five million US dollars. Must protect cash. Please help receive! Respond! Sincerely Yours, Mr. Foreign"

More: http://purportal.com/spam/

March 10th, 2007