Konnichiwa
// January 31st, 2007 // Blog
A very short post, which may be deleted soon.
Spam is annoying enough, but what about spam in a foreign language?
I've been receiving random e-mails at my blog e-mail addy, written in, what i think is, Japanese.
If anyone can translate, here is a sample for you. I hope it's nothing too rude!
男性も女性も無料のセフレ探しの完全版やっとできました☆彡世の中セックス無しでは生きてる意味がないってゆう男女ばかり集まっております。早い人なら、メール始めた日に会ってる方も結構います!
Dear Japanese spammers: Please stop wasting the internet, and target a more appropriate audience!
Google is your friend!
Seems somewhat incoherent, but spam generally is.
Translation:
I am a teapot. Don’t worry too much about me, and don’t drink too much coffee.
By the way, to avoid getting spam, try removing the mailto: link, rather give your email as soemthing like
imuslim-uk AT yahoo DOT com
It could be an invite to take part in Takeshi’s Castle or it could be from a disposed Japanese Prince with 25b yen he wants to deposit in your account.
I’m still getting these stupid e-mails! I must recieve 20 a day… and i can’t figure a way of filtering them out! Grr.
At my normal email address, i received a very oddly titled piece of spam today: “A black French person with as much claim to frenchness and the identical qualifications as Sarkozy cannot even dream of becoming interior minister of France.”.
Out of curiosity, i Googled the entire term, and found an exact match on a website called “france watcher”!
There is another class of spam that seems to have no purpose, whatsoever. No dodgy adverts, no phishing for your credit card details; they just contain passages from random novels! Crazy…