a new mail service has just delivered us a spammer whose first language is not English.

…and I must say, whose spam was not even coherent. If you are using ymail, and actually want to be a member of this site, please post and let me know. My default is to put ymail on the banned list, unless it proves a legitimate mail origin used by people who are not discussing red underwear. That was quite bizarre.

7 Comments

CJ on July 18, 2012 at 5:13 pm

Lol—Kokipy, I don’t know what site you’re using, but I’ve fished you out of the spam filter twice in two minutes! 😆 😆

P J Evans on July 18, 2012 at 6:39 pm

I think all the stuff that ever showed up in my email via ymail *was* spam. (I sent it off to the mail provider’s spam filtering system.)

BlueCatShip on July 19, 2012 at 1:01 am

Tangentially Related: Several times over the past year, a flavor of spam that uses apparently random phrases lumped together, has arrived in any of my email boxes (Yahoo, Gmail, my own site’s email). I’d guess it’s a script throwing together text strings, because it’s unlike anything a non-fluent foreign speaker would do. It’s more like Mad Libs, but merely random instead of humorously constructive. And, y’know, it’s spam. Ick. Too bad it can’t feed the fusion drive….

kokipy on July 19, 2012 at 4:00 am

I posted yesterday from my new place of employment – a very very respectable wall street law firm. I hope I didn’t drag the red underwear with me!

OrionSlaveGirl on July 19, 2012 at 7:49 am

Kokipy, since you have changed employers, please send me your new email address. I have some red underwear that I think you would be interested in!

CJ on July 19, 2012 at 8:22 am

No more red underwear—winter woolies come to mind 😉 ymail is toastified.

chondrite on July 19, 2012 at 12:31 pm

I’ve seen spam come through as Cyrillic and Chinese characters. The Cyrillic actually appeared as Cyrillic; the Chinese was those Microsoft blocks with the hotkey coding.