[Vision2020] Arabic spam

[Donovan Arnold]

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> 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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