[Vision2020] Arabic spam

[Paul Rumelhart]

I doubt it's related to Vision2020.  I was just curious if it was a 
widespread problem or if I was the only one.  The few people I asked at 
work weren't getting any of them.

Paul

On 09/11/2011 10:54 PM, Andreas Schou wrote:
> I'm getting the same thing. I had no idea it had anything to do with
> Vision2020 -- via Google Translate,  it appears to be a mailing list
> that's filled with sixty of the Arabic version of my mom: people
> sending out treacly, inspirational religious messages to each other.
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Paul Rumelhart<godshatter at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Is anyone else getting tons of spam that's all in Arabic? Here's an example
>> of a subject line: Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ صـنـ النمـل ــدوق Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ اثارالمعاصي
>>
>> I don't know if you're all setup with the right fonts for this, or if you're
>> seeing gibberish.
>>
>> I get probably 50 of these a day. It's getting quite annoying, although they
>> are easy to find and delete (don't know Arabic).
>>
>> Anyone else having this problem? It seems to have started a month or two
>> ago.
>>
>> Paul
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