[Vision2020] Arabic spam

[Paul Rumelhart]

I've been getting lots of those, too.  They started about the same time 
the arabic spam started.

Paul

On 09/11/2011 11:56 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:
> I get lots of them. I wish all my spam was in Arabic. It just makes it 
> easier to spot and I don't have to read it on accident. I also get 
> amazing and confidential business offers from people who knew my great 
> long lost rich relatives from a country that doesn't exist where they 
> all learned poor broken English. "Dear sir or Ms, I write you in great 
> confidence urgent matter." "Please urgently reply me regarding you 
> dollars."
> Donovan Arnold
>
> *From:* Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
> *To:* Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Vision 2020 <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:54 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Arabic spam
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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
> >
> > =======================================================
> > List services made available by First Step Internet,
> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
> > http://www.fsr.net <http://www.fsr.net/>
> >         mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > =======================================================
>
> =======================================================
> List services made available by First Step Internet,
> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
> http://www.fsr.net <http://www.fsr.net/>
>           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> =======================================================
>

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