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		unishark on Feb 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam You'd think they have the world's biggest dataset of scam posts too, with people constantly labeling posts for them (including law enforcement).

ericd on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

The problem is that scam posts are frequently just copied legitimate posts. The only thing we found that worked was to force communication to go through a messaging proxy to run classifiers on those messages.

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