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Cerium · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:10 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject: ...wtf?

So I went to clear out my spam folder today, and noticed something:
http://hybrid.shanky.com/wtf.png

Out of all the spam I receive, only 10% of it is in english.
So, what the hell? I dont visit any sites that use these languages, mostly because I can only speak/read one language, and even that depends on how intoxicated I am.

Aside from web crawling bots, and spam companies selling lists of names, how do I get my email on these foreign spam lists?

And secondly, wouldnt it make sense for them to spam me in a language I can understand? Clearly if they got my email off a site thats 100% english, wouldnt it be fairly clear that I speak english?

Bah.

Maverick · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:00 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

maybe your name means something in that language and its quite obvious its being spammed. Maybe Cerium means something like "postmaster" or something like that.
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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:49 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I like the "^ ^*" appended to the subject lines. Probably translates to "Hey, you wanna come sleep with me because I'm a 15 year old American slut who watches anime and thinks she's fitting in with the Japanese stereotype?", thus making the "^ ^*" a requirement.
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Cerium · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:26 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Well, Cerium is an element, mostly used for manufacturing glass.
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ce/key.html

The worst part about this is: Im pretty sure most of them are trying to explain my inability to please my significant other without their penial enhancement.

How do they all know?!
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newb · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:23 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Lmao. The Japanese/Chinese/Koreans have something agaisnt you.

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I've been getting those dumb "your free gift card for <> is here!" e-mails other than - been sailing on calm waters.
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Contempt+ · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:57 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Sometimes people can get ahold of your e-mail address, and sign you up for a whole bunch of crap. It's happened to me before.
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Purge · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:41 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Yeah, but Gmail does a good job filtering out the spam.

GENERAL_SLAYER · Newbie Gender: Joined: Apr 24 2005 Posts: 18 Offline

and i thought my spam was bad

newb · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:00 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

GMail is the best e-mail service I have ever come across.

Ex-Gravitron · Guest Offline

The main pages of Shanky.com and its sub-domains are under close watch of crawlers.
You'll be suprised at the amount of spam I got from Mine Go Boom and myself (nothing like being spammed by your own mail address) even.
It was since then that I started posting news with a faux email.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:11 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

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Purge · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:40 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

It permits .zip, but you can't have an EXE or DLL or any other executable file in there. If you want to send those, you'll have to RAR it up.

Ex-Gravitron · Guest Offline

C:\>rename filename.exe filename.run

Then zip it.

D1st0rt · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:07 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I use file.zip.doc

You can really use any extension you want that doesn't use ASCII to send (ie .txt)
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Ken the Great · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:20 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

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I use hotmail and never got any spam o.O