Unfortunately, Valdis, ethnic name differentiation isn't always that easy. My name, like yours, is Latvian. But ethnic Greeks sometimes think my name is Greek, and occasionally I receive mail and telephone solicitations for trips to Greece, and that sort of thing. But, I haven't yet experienced ethnically-targeted spam, from Greeks or Latvians. But, I'm sure that it will happen, sooner or later.......Alex Kuskis alex.kuskis@utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valdis" <valdis@orgnet.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:49 PM Subject: [Air-l] Re: ethnic spamming
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].
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