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Email anti-phishing inspector

  • US 8,032,594 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2004
  • Issued: 10/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of determining a phishing email using a score, comprising:

  • receiving an email message;

    parsing the email message into a header and a body;

    extracting a URL from the body;

    determining a HTML tag associated with the URL;

    adjusting the score based on the determined HTML tag;

    determining a geographic location of origination for the email message;

    adjusting the score based on the determined geographic location of origination; and

    determining if the email message is a phishing email message by comparing the score with a predetermined phishing threshold score.

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