“Stupidly polygamy.”
I get a lot of spam. I mean a lot of spam. I know everyone gets a lot of spam, but I get a quantity of spam every day that’s just quite unreal.
About two-thirds of the spam I get is in Russian. Of the remaining spam, a good bit of it is in French, a lot of it is in Spanish, some of it is in German, some of it is in Chinese, a little bit is in Italian, a little bit is in Polish, every so often I get the odd occasional bit of spam in Hebrew (usually advertising a Web site I can’t make hide nor hair of but featuring expensive American electronics and watches with large bold prices and bulleted lists), and today I got my first spam in Arabic.
I was puzzling about that a while ago. Yesterday, I started working on a new page for my polyamory site, which lists all the mirrors of the page tat have been translated into other languages, and it clicked.
I did a Google search for my name in non-English languages, and found translations of my poly pages in Russian, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and Hebrew, each with an email link to my primary AOL address. This suggests that spammers are actually scraping email addresses from Web sites and taking note of the language tags in those Web sites, and selling the email addresses scraped from the non-English sites (probably at a premium) to people who spam in languages other than English.
Today’s Arabic spam puzzles me, though. I can’t find any mention of my name or email on any Arabic-language Web sites, at least not via Google.
I wind up with a lot of arabic/indian spam, I think. I can’t tell what language it is, actually. It’s because of my name.
I wind up with a lot of arabic/indian spam, I think. I can’t tell what language it is, actually. It’s because of my name.
My spam is chiefly (badly written) english or chinese. Last month, I received 45,000 items, and the month before around 58,000. It’s fookin’ mental.
This month, I tried something new, and went medieval on my spam-filtering. I think I might get about 7,000 items of spam delivered to my inbox, of which around 950 will be filtered out by gMail, so I only have about 50 to worry about. From 50K to 50 sounds manageable, really.
– Haje
45K per month??! Dude! You win. 🙂
My spam is chiefly (badly written) english or chinese. Last month, I received 45,000 items, and the month before around 58,000. It’s fookin’ mental.
This month, I tried something new, and went medieval on my spam-filtering. I think I might get about 7,000 items of spam delivered to my inbox, of which around 950 will be filtered out by gMail, so I only have about 50 to worry about. From 50K to 50 sounds manageable, really.
– Haje
45K per month??! Dude! You win. 🙂