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I would say that while there can be legitimate email addresses with multiple digits, and fraudulent email addresses with no digits, neither of these facts precludes the possibility of a correlation.


that's exactly my point. Looking at this habit of "email address with multiple digits" alone seems correlation rather than causation. Making an anti-fraud algorithm by including all or most of these habits might point to causation and help solve the problem though.




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