So a routine search turned up a little Research Paper from the University of Nebraska in Omaha.<\/p>\n
Trends in Phishing Attacks: Suggestions for Future Research (2011) | Ryan M. Schuetzler |\u00a0University of Nebraska at Omaha, rschuetzler@unomaha.edu<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n While I’m flattered by being used as a creditable source, I am upset that they:<\/p>\n …To obtain a corpus of phishing emails, we scraped 2709 emails from Scamdex.com (\u201cEmail Scam, Internet Fraud, IdentityTheft & Phishing Resource,\u201d n.d.). This corpus contained emails over a 3-year period from November 2006 to June 2009.These emails were submitted to Scamdex by recipients of phishing attacks..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n The legality of screen-scraping, a term used for software tools that extensively mine or extract information or complete contents of a website, is debatable – Generally speaking, if commercial use is made of the result then it gets a bit tricky, but for research purposes a lot more latitude is generally given. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good one-pager on Fair Use.<\/a><\/p>\n If asked, Scamdex would have been completely happy to collaborate. We do ask (nicely) that …<\/p>\n\n
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