Yes, I have also receive regular Korean & Chinese spam that I cannot read. Once you get a on list... When I start receiving SPAM written in Latvian, I will know that someone has perfected a 'ethnic finder'. This may not be that hard to do -- just look for first names that are common only in that language. I'm sure someone Perl expert could even write code to differentiate between nationalities with similar spellings... i.e. Valdis[Latvian --> send SPAM about Riga based business], Valdas[Lithuanian --> send SPAM about Vilnius based business]. Valdis Krebs http://www.orgnet.com air-l-request@aoir.org wrote:
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AFAIK, I have not signed up to any "indian" or "pakistani" or south asian websites, they must have dredged e-mail addresses and then matched them with ethnic names.
Anyone else come across this fine grained spamming?
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Indeed I have... also many spam in a character set that looks like Japanese, Mandarin or Korean...
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