Re: ,,... Usenet Authorities Are Cracking Down On SPAM From @Home ..

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <85tae6$tmq$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>, fadden@netcom.com (Andy
McFadden) wrote:

>I get spam in Chinese.  Not merely from China, but in the Chinese language.
>I can't even decode the character set, but there's something about spam
>that transcends language.  Might be the forged mail header. :-)
>
>I used to get spam in Spanish too, but it looks like the guy from Spain
>(asw.es) finally gave up though.  I'm actually getting very little spam
>these days -- maybe one or two a day -- so perhaps I wound up on a list of
>known complainers.  One can hope. :-)
>
>--
>Send mail to fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)
>CD-Recordable FAQ - http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ (a/k/a www.spies.com/~fadden)
>Fight Internet Spam - http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ & news.admin.net-abuse.email

Oh, you'll love this one then! It arrived yesterday...

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Dear Sir/Madam,

We are a professional information services company in Hong Kong providing
fast, accurate and inexpensive information services since 1993 with more
than 200 supporting staff.

Scope of Services:

(1) Chinese/English Word Processing Service &
    Chinese/English Data Preparation Service [Offshore Services Welcome]

<blah blah blah>

(2) English/Chinese Translation Services [Offshore Services Welcome]

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I'm lucky though, I only get one or two spam messages a week.


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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