Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Spam goes multi-lingual

Just now, I saw my first Portuguese (Brazillian, likely) email spam come through my gmail account.

I've now recieved spam in the following languages:

  • Portuguese (Brazillian)
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Chinese
  • French
  • English

I'm sure there is more; that's just what I remember off the top of my head. Of course, some spam has a language of its own so vile and obscene that it should be repeated in no language known to man.

Post Author: rico
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:55:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) 

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:16:45 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Lately I've been getting email returned (that I didn't send) to a large number of addresses in Mexico. One of my old email aliases is being spoofed. I no longer use it, but still have messages forwarded to my current address. I probably get a dozen of these a day. And of course, I have to take the time to look at it in case it's a legitimate email bounce. I know of no way to filter these outside of stopping the forwards from my old address entirely.
R. Mansfield
Saturday, December 10, 2005 9:29:55 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Try SPAMfighter (SPAMfighter.com). I'm now virtually spam free!
Nathan Parker
Monday, December 12, 2005 9:25:11 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Alas, it looks like there is not a Mac version of Spamfighter.
R. Mansfield
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