Ask HN: Is there a list of definite spam words/phrases?

2 points by throwaway000021 8 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

It appears to me that spam systems work out the probability that some item of mail is spam based on some sort of algorithms.

However, recently I have been processing hundreds of thousands of emails including hundreds of thousands of items of spam.

I can see in the spam emails that there are many words and phrases used in the subject lines that will simply never appear in any valid email that I care about receiving. For example:

H00kup

F*ckbuddy

Xenical

Viagra

BangBuddy

In addition to the single words, there are various phrases in the subject lines that would never appear in a legit email, such as:

Affordable lux Copy watches

accessories for cheap

Designer timepieces for all tastes

Time to look rich

So it strikes me that maybe there is a list of words and phrases that, if found in an email subject line, definitely identify that email as spam.

Does anyone know if such a list exists? A list of words/phrases that would only ever be found on a spam email?