On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Met History wrote:

> They've been showing up in my box a lot - thought they might be a cry for
> help from ... whom?   Christopher

The volume of foreign language spam is steadily increasing.  I've gotten
over 3,800 of them since the first of the year.  That's an average of more
than ten a day.

The example you provided appears to be Japanese, but Chinese and Korean
ones are more prevalent.

Since it costs hardly anything to stuff every e-mailbox in the world,
there's no reason for the spammers to bother worrying about hitting people
outside the target audience.

Not a cry for help -- more likely they want to sell you vinyl siding or
penis enlargement pills or something.

I was charmed the first time I received spam in Italian, or Polish, or
something, but it palls pretty quickly.

                            Larry

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